Kochi Rajavu
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Directed by	Johny Antony[1]
Written by	Udayakrishna Siby K. Thomas[2][3][4]
Produced by	R. Mohan
Starring	Dileep Kavya Madhavan Rambha Harisree Ashokan
Cinematography	Saloo George
Edited by	Ranjan Abraham
Music by	Vidhyasagar
Production company	Amith Productions
Release date	14 April 2005 (2005-04-14) (India)
Running time	160 minutes
Country	India
Language	Malayalam

Kochi Rajavu (transl. King of Kochi) is a 2005 Indian Malayalam-language action film directed by Johny Antony and written by the Udayakrishna-Siby K. Thomas duo.^[5][6][7] It stars Dileep^[8] in the lead role with Kavya Madhavan,^[9] Rambha, Harisree Ashokan, Murali and Jagathy Sreekumar in supporting roles.

The film marks the second collaboration between Dileep, Johny Antony, and the writing duo Udaykrishna–Sibi K. Thomas after C.I.D. Moosa (2003).^[10]

The film starts with Suryanarayana Varma alias Unni, 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 enrolls him in a law college in Chennai. There he meets Meenakshi and gets into conflicts with her brother Siva and his enemy Muthu. Meenakshi eventually falls in love with Unni. Once Meenakshi's family finds out about her love for Unni and they visit his house for a marriage request. But Unni has a past he can't escape, which he narrates his flashback to Meenakshi.

He fell in love with a medical student named Aswathy, who hails from the Karimparakal family. Aswathy's parents are dead, and she lives with her uncles Prabhakaran, Sudhakaran and Divakaran and their family. Prabhakaran wants to gain her inheritance by arranging a marriage between his eldest son Prakashan and Aswathy. Unni sees Aswathy in a temple and falls in love with her. Aswathy accidentally gets into the autorickshaw of Unni when she is going to meet Prakashan. During the ride, Unni realizes she is going to meet her fiancee and delays bringing Aswathy to her destination.He profess his love to her many times which she rejects.

She becomes fed up with him and decides to tell her uncles. She and her uncles plan to make fun of him and calls Unni to her house. Unni gets shocked to see Aswathy's uncles, and realises that he had hit them before. They beat him very badly and throw him out. Aswathy falls for him after he recovers. They decide to get married, but her uncles object and during a fight between Unni, Prakashan and their henchmen, Unni kills Prakashan in a fit of rage and in self-defence. He gets arrested for killing Prakashan and gets imprisonment for 5 years.

Back to present, Unni's father makes him believe Aswathy has been married off to an NRI settled in Gulf, so he gets engaged to Meenakshi. Meanwhile, Aswathy calls Unni, telling him that she is still waiting for him. He goes to Kerala to find her, and tries to escape with her in a truck. Chased by Aswathy's family and Meenakshi's family they are saved finally by the autorickshaw drivers and get married.^[11]

The film was released on 14 April 2005 coinciding with Vishu.^[12][13] It was released alongside and faced competition from the Prithviraj-starrer Athbhutha Dweepu, the Mohanlal-starrer Chandrolsavam and the Jayaram-starrer Alice in Wonderland.^[14] Made on a budget of ₹2.5 crores, Kochi Rajavu was a commercial success.^[15][16][17] It grossed ₹2.804 crore from three days and ₹4.01 crore in 21 days from 44 screens with a distributor's share of ₹1.73 Crore.^[18] It ended its commercial performance with the verdict blockbuster" and thus emerged the year's Vishu winner.^[18]

The soundtrack of Kochi Rajavu was composed by Vidyasagar. He later adapted the song "Munthiri Padam" in Tamil as "Aruviyoda" for the film Pasa Kiligal.

Lyrics : Thunchath Ramanujan Ezhuthachan

• Kochi Rajavu at IMDb