[1] Don Max was born on 16 November 1980 in Mundakayam, Kottayam District, Kerala, as the eldest child of K. L. Varghese, a former bank manager at SBT, and T. V. Chinamma, who was a teacher in Malayalam at St. Thomas High School in Anikkad.
After spending his first seven years in the Idukki district, his family shifted to Pallickathode, Anickad.
Beginning his career as an editor for ad films and television channels, Don initially focussed on animation, before realising that he would have a more fulfilling career as an editor the possibilities in editing.
Don subsequently did trailers for more than fifty films, before debuting as a senior editor through Shaji Kailas’s The Tiger (2005).
In late 2014, he began his first directorial venture with actor Anoop Menon in the lead role,[3] and released his debut movie 10 Kalpanakal in 25 November 2016.