Arayamparambil Vasavan Anoop, better known as A V Anoop (born 30 April 1962), is an Indian entrepreneur, social worker, actor, author and film producer. He is the Managing Director of AVA Group of Companies, a consortium of ayurvedic, herbal and food products. AVA group is known for the iconic brand, "MEDIMIX", world largest selling ayurvedic soap in South India.The group also owns the most popular household Kerala brands in spices and condiments "Melam" ,Kaytra in personal care and a multi-speciality most modern ayurvedic hospital under the name "Sanjeevanam" in Kochi, Kerala.
In December 2023, he was appointed as the Chairman of India Eurasia Trade Council by the Ambassador of Kyrgyzstan to India.
In 2007, he started producing movies under the banner of AVA Productions that includes feature films, documentaries & short films. The banner has bagged various awards regionally, nationally, and internationally.
In 2007, he won the Kerala State Film Award under the category of ‘Best Documentary Film’ for producing the documentary titled ‘Before the Brush Dropped’. In 2008, he won the 56th National Film Award for the Best Film on Family Values- Non-feature section for the short film ‘Appuvin Nayagan-Spotty (My Hero).
’The movies Paleri Manikyam: Oru Pathirakolapathakathinte Katha, won the 2009 Kerala State Film Award for Best Film and Vishwaguru, a film that was made and released in 51 hours and 2 minutes following a "script to screen" rule, created a new Guinness World Record in the year 2017.
The banner has also produced the first-ever Science Sanskrit documentary titled "YAANAM" which was officially selected for screening at the Indian Panorama 2022.
Currently, the banner has produced over 35 projects, with the latest being Sookshmadarshini. Mr. Anoop won Kerala Film critics award 2023,
In the year 2023, he penned a book named "You Turn", a memoir which was published by DC Books. The book was officially released at the Sharjah International Book Festival on 5 November 2023.The Tamil version of the memoir published by Sixthsense Publications was released at the Sharjah International Book Festival on 7 November 2024.The English version of the memoir was published by Penguin Random House India Ltd on 2025.
Film Production
Filmography
Personal life
A. V. Anoop is the son of A. G. Vasavan and Lilly Bai. He had his schooling with
St. Joseph's Higher Secondary School, Thiruvananthapuram
St Joseph's Higher Secondary School (informally St Joseph's or SJHSS) is a government aided boys school in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India, which was established in 1857.
Notable alumni
* Madhu (actor), film actor
* Sathyan (actor) ...
and graduated in commerce from
Mahatma Gandhi College, Thiruvananthapuram. He stays at
Chennai
Chennai, also known as Madras (List of renamed places in India#Tamil Nadu, its official name until 1996), is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Tamil Nadu by population, largest city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost states and ...
with his family.
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Businesspeople from Thrissur
Living people
1962 births
Tamil entrepreneurs
Tamil film producers
Malayalam film producers
Kerala State Film Award winners