Crocodile Love Story

Crocodile Love Story is a 2013 Indian film directed by Anoop Ramesh and produced by Anurag Motion Pictures. It features Praveen Prem and Avanthika Mohan in the lead roles, with crocodile in supporting roles. The music and background score is composed by Arun Sidharrth. The movie, which used the technique of Animatronics for the first time in Malayalam cinema released on 19 July 2013.[1]

Crocodile Love Story
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Directed byAnoop Ramesh
Written bySabari Sankar
StarringPraveen Prem
Avanthika Mohan
Manikuttan
Ashokan
Praseetha Menon
Maya Viswanath
Santhosh Kurup
Vijayan Karanthoor
Music byArun Sidharrth
CinematographyPraveen Panicker
Edited byK. Sreenivas
Production
company
Anurag Motion Pictures
Distributed byAnurag Motion Pictures
Release date
  • 19 July 2013 (2013-07-19)
CountryIndia
LanguageMalayalam

Plot

Kiran (Praveen Prem), son of retired Government staff Parameswaran (R. K. Thayyil) is working in a hardware firm after completing his B.Tech course, with no responsibilities and aims in his life. Nithya (Avanthika Mohan), only daughter of bank manager Narayanan Namboothiri (Ashokan) and Gayathri (Maya Viswanath) is working in a private IT firm after completing her M.Tech. These two childhood friends meet each other and eventually fall in love. But the parents of both their families are against the love between them, being very conventional. They elope to a distant remote place near to a forest. There a crocodile enters between them, and thus crocodile love story begins. The interesting incidents and unexpected twists happening after crocodile's entry forms the rest of the story.[2]

Cast
  • Praveen Prem as Kiran
  • Avanthika Mohan as Nithya Namboothiri
  • Manikuttan as Sreeraj
  • Ashokan as Narayanan Nampoothiri
  • R. K. Thayyil as Parameswaran
  • Dinesh Panicker as S.P Anthony
  • Maya Viswanath as Gayathri, Nithya's mother
  • Vijayan Karanthoor as Sreeraj's uncle
  • Praseetha Menon as Sreeraj's mother
  • Santhosh Kurup as Sreeraj's father
  • Prem Kumar as S.I.Vishwambharan
  • Kalabhavan Mani as S.I Suresh

Production

The pooja of the film was held in Thiruvananthapuram on 2 January 2013, which was attended by many special guests such as director Shyamaprasad, director Shaji Kailas, producer Suresh Babu of Revathi Kalamandir, his wife and old Malayalam actress Menaka, Thiruvananthapuram Corporation mayor Adv. J. Chandrika and also by most of the cast and crew of the film. The first schedule which also included the shooting of one song started on 9 January 2013 at Thiruvananthapuram with Corporation Mayor Adv. J. Chandrika, mother of director Anoop Ramesh switching on the camera and completed in various places of Thiruvananthapuram within 24 days. The second schedule shooting was done at Malampuzha dams in Palakkad in March with a duration of around 18 days, mainly shooting the scenes of crocodile. The editing and dubbing works have been completed in Thiruvananthapuram and Chennai.

Soundtrack

The music and background score for the movie is composed by Arun Sidharrth, while Sreeprasad C penned the lyrics. Audio and video of the song has been released on 5 July 2013.

Track listing
No.TitleSinger(s)Length
1."Aaro Aaro Ennariyathe"Sreejith P. Pillai, Shweta Mohan4:32

Critical reception

Crocodile Love story getting mixed reviews from critics.

tikkview.com gives 2.8/5 for this movie. They have given good ratings for visual graphics, music and cinematography.[3]

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References
  1. http://entertainment.oneindia.in/malayalam/movies/crocodile-love-story.html
  2. http://www.nowrunning.com/movie/12005/malayalam/crocodile-love-story/index.htm
  3. http://www.tikkview.com/movies/4523-crocodile-love-story
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