Kochi Rajavu

Kochi Rajavu
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Directed by	Johny Antony
Produced by	R. Mohan
Written by	Udayakrishna Siby K. Thomas
Starring	Dileep Rambha Kavya Madhavan
Music by	Vidhyasagar
Cinematography	Saloo George
Edited by	Ranjan Abraham
Release dates	14 April 2005 (2005-04-14)
Country	India
Language	Malayalam

Kochi Rajavu (translated as King of Kochi) is a 2005 Malayalam-language Masala film , directed by Johny Antony. It stars Dileep, Kavya Madhavan & Rambha.

Plot

The film starts with Unni (Dileep), who hails from a royal family, returning from prison. He had killed the son of a large family who are now searching for him. Unni's parents take him to Chennai and enroll him in a law college. There he meets Meenakshi (Rambha) who falls in love with him. Unni had a feud with Meera's brother's gang at the college. As always, Unni wins. So they send a "killer" to break his arms, who runs away on seeing Unni. Meera falls in love with him. Unni saves Meera her brother and they become friends. Then it happens that her family members are all politicians. Soon they become family friends and they fix the marriage between Unni and Meera.Unni then narrates his flashback to Meera.

In the flashback he tells how he met Aswathy (Kavya Madhavan) in a temple and how he falls in love for her. Unni was studying in Cochin Law college where he stood for elections and won. His father did not want his son to be the leader and Unni leaves the house after a feud with his father. He earns his living as an autorickshaw driver. One day, one of his friend's autos is taken by the finance company without any reason. Unni goes to the office and hits the manager. The manager sends his gonda who is the "killer" now in Chennai. Unni breaks his arms and takes the auto from the company.

Then he becomes their hero. Aswathy's parents have died and are looked after by her three uncles. Aswathy thinks that her uncles are good but they are corrupt and one wants his son to marry Aswathy so that he can inherit all her parents property. Aswathy accidentally gets into the autorickshaw of Unni when she is going to met her uncle's son who has come from Bangalore. From the travel he comes to know about her name and her house. Unni comes to know that she was going to meet her future husband and as he is love with her delays the travel by all means.

She becomes fed up with him and decides to tell her uncle. She along with her uncle plan to make fun of him and calls Unni to her House. Unni learns that Aswathy's uncle is the auto company owner and they beat him badly. She falls for him when she sees him being injured. They decide to get married and in the drama that follows Unni kills Aswathy's uncle's son.

Meanwhile, Unni receives a phone call from Aswathy telling him that she is still waiting for him.Then with the help of Meera he goes to Kerala to save her. Then he cleverly gets Aswathy in his hands and tries to escape through a truck. Chased by Aswathy's family and Meera's family they are saved finally by the autorickshaw drivers and get married.

Cast

• Dileep as Surya Narayana Varma/Unni
• Murali as Unni's Father
• Kalaranjini as Unni's Mother
• Jagathy Sreekumar as Unni's Grandfather
• Kavya Madhavan as Aswathy
• Rambha as Meenakshi
• Vijayan Menon as Parthasarathy
• Mohan Jose as Ambbattur Singam
• Thara as Unni's Sister
• Vijayaraghavan as Prabhakaran
• Sadiq
• Harisree Ashokan as Unni's friend
• T. P. Madhavan as College Principal
• Kalabhavan Shajon as Meenakshi's driver
• Geetha Salaam as Auto driver
• Machan Varghese as Karali Shishyan
• Nandhu Pothuval as Auto driver
• Kalabhavan Haneef as Auto driver
• Irshad as Prabhakaran's eldest son
• Kavi Raj as Prabhakaran's youngest son
• Riyaz Khan as Meenakshi's brother
• Sudheer as Muthu
• Indrans as Worker of canteen
• Ambika Mohan as Bhavani
• Ponnamma Babu as Kunjanamma
• Kavitha Nair as Meenakshi's friend
• Indulekha as Jyothy
• Deepika Mohan as Jyothy's mother

Reception

This film was released on 14 April 2005,as a Vishu Release,and ran for 140 days,and was a super hit at the box office grossing over 10 crore

Soundtrack

Kochirajavu
Soundtrack album by Vidyasagar
Released	2005
Producer	Vidyasagar
Vidyasagar chronology
Made in USA (2005)Made in USA2005 Kochirajavu (2005) Alice in Wonderland (2005)Alice in Wonderland2005

Music : Vidyasagar

Song Title	Singers
"Viral Thottu Vilichal"	Sujatha Mohan
"Munthiri Padam"	Udit Narayan, Sujatha Mohan
"Thanka Kutta"	Sujatha Mohan, Anoop Shankar
"Moonu Chakra Vandi"	M. G. Sreekumar
"Kinavin Kiligale"	Karthik, Manjari

Sources

• Kochi Rajavu at IMDb