Ad film editor Shivkumar V. Panicker has been a part of the industry for about a decade and has worked with reputed clients such as Fastrack, ICICI, MTV, Cadbury, Pepsi, Tata Sky, Tanishq, Google, Hike, Vodafone, Maggi, Max, and Amazon. After seeing his work in ads, he was approached by director Shakun Batra to work on his debut venture Kapoor & Sons (2016), following which he worked on movies like Budhia Singh: Born to Run (2016), Chef (2017), Tumhari Sulu (2017) and Hope Aur Hum (2018).