Abhinav Sunder Nayak

Abhinav Sunder Nayak is an Indian film director and editor. He has worked in Malayalam and Tamil language films. He is best known for directing, co-writing & co-editing the Malayalam film Mukundan Unni Associates.

Early life A native of Kozhikode, Abhinav attended Kendriya Vidyalaya before graduating in Visual Communication from Dr G R Damodaran College of Science, Coimbatore.

Career Abhinav edited and directed several short films before serving as an assistant director to Vineeth Sreenivasan for the Malayalam film Thira (2013). His feature film debut came with Tamil-Malayalam bilingual Vaayai Moodi Pesavum (2014), as the editor.

Aside from editing, he has cut the trailers for numerous films, notably Thira (2013), Oru Vadakkan Selfie (2015), Kunjiramayanam (2015), Jacobinte Swargarajyam (2016), Njandukalude Naattil Oridavela (2017) and Aravindante Athidhikal (2018). Princy Alexander of OnManorama wrote "Mukundan Unni is delightfully deceptive.The director and writer Abhinav Sunder Nayak and co-writer Vimal Gopalakrishnan have to be credited." Jose K George of The Week praised the film, saying "It is refreshing to see filmmakers not falling into the trap of shouldering the moral responsibility to make a movie the monolith of morality."

In 2023, Abhinav expressed his interest in developing a sequel to Mukundan Unni Associates. He is presently working on Althaf Salim's sophomore film Odum Kuthira Chadum Kuthira as its editor. In May 2024, he announced his next film called Mollywood Times, with a quirky tagline - 'A hate letter to cinema', produced by Aashiq Usman, released in 2026.

Filmography Films +Year Title NotesRef. 2022 Mukundan Unni Associates Debut film The first installment of Success trilogy 2026 Mollywood Times The second installment of Success trilogy

Editor

Short films