A. V. Anoop

Arayamparambil Vasavan Anoop, better known as A V Anoop (born 30 April 1962), is an Indian entrepreneur, social worker, and film producer. He is the Managing Director of AVA Group of Companies, a consortium of ayurvedic, herbal and food products. The group is the manufacturer of the World’s largest selling Ayurvedic Bath Soap “Medimix”. The group also owns the most popular household Kerala brands in spices and condiments “Melam” 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 25 movies, with the latest being Achanoru Vazha Vechu, for which Mr. Anoop won Kerala Film critics award 2023, under the category of special jury award for his character role as Sachidanandan.

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 5th November 2023.

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 and graduated in commerce from Mahatma Gandhi College, Thiruvananthapuram. He stays at Chennai with his family.