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Maneesh Kurup
(born 28 February 1989) Is an Indian film maker from Kerala. He is the director, film editor and lyricist of Malayalam movie Vellarikkapattanam. The film won several awards including the Kerala Film Critics Award in 2023. He started his film career in editing with famous film editor B Lenin. After that, he has worked as film editor, writer project designer of the movie Aval Vannathinu Shesham released in the year of 2015 that won the Children's Film Awards in many International festivals.

Personal Life
Maneesh Kurup was born in Punalur in Kollam district. He did his schooling at Chemmanthoor High School, Punalur. After plus two from Punalur Govt Higher Secondary School, he pursued a BSc degree at MMNSS Collage Konni, Pathanamthitta District. He was the captain of the cricket team during his college days.After that, he went to Eranakulam private film school to study film direction and made some short films. After watching a short film in them, he was called as an assistant to editor B. Lenin in Chennai.

lyrics Writer
Manesh started writing movie songs by writing the song that starts with Ariyavalli Kudilil in the first movie Aval Vannathinu Shesham. Santhosh Raj composed the music of the song sung by Unni Menon. . After the first song which won critical acclaim, the song Onnaam Kunnil from the music album Forever and ever became the number one hit romantic album of the time. Maneesh Kurup was also the director of the album, who later used the song in his own movie. Mandaravalli, Nenjinte orathu from Vellarikappattanam movie, and Najim Arshad's Manathe Meghangal from the album Pranayini Priyathamayakumbol where he starred with his wife Ganga