Anil Panachooran

Anil Panachooran (20 November 1965 – 3 January 2021) was an Indian poet and lyricist, who worked in the Malayalam film industry. Anil panachooran was a lawyer by profession. His last lyrics was penned for the movie Within Seconds(2021).He completed the last lines of his song just a few hours before his death.While undergoing treatment for COVID-19, he died on 3 January 2021, following a cardiac arrest.

Life and Career
Anil panachooran was born to panachooran veetil udayabhanu and Draubathi udayabhanu in Kayamkulam on 20 November 1965. he completed his studies from Kerala Law Academy College in Thiruvananthapuram and Kakatiya Universit y in Warangal.he is married to maya and they have two children.

He made his debut in the malayalam film industry through the 2005 malayalam movie Makalkku which was directed by Jayaraj and music was composed by Ramesh Narayan He shot to popularity with film ‘Arabikkatha’ which was directed by Lal Jose in the year 2007. This was his first assignment in his career. He wrote some prominent lines in the lyrics of the song Chora Veena Mannil Ninnum which established him in cine world. His next assignment was the film ‘’ by M. Mohanan. He wrote lines such as ‘Vyathyasthanamoru Barbaram Balane’ in this film that was sung by Pradeep Palluruthy.

Anil has written lyrics for many movies of Mohanlal, Dileep, and Indrajith. These movies were blockbusters in those days. Some of the prominent films that released those days include ‘Madamp i’, ‘Alibhai’,’ Minnaminnikootam’, ‘Cycle’, ‘Mulla’, ‘Twenty:20’... Some of the prominent composers for which he has written lyrics include Alex Pau l, Mejo Joseph, M. Jayachandran, Vidyasagar, Afzal Yusuf, Suresh Peters and Berny Ignatius, etc. In between 2007-2009, he wrote lines for as many as 11 films out of which nine films fared very well at the box office. In 2009, he wrote lyrics for highly grossed films such as ‘Daddy Cool’ and in 2010, he again wrote for a successful film ‘Cocktail’. In 2011, another film of Mohanlal released which was ‘China Town’. In this film, he wrote lyrics for music composer Jassie Gift.

Besides writing lyrics for many hit songs he also wrote many poetry collections in the malayalam literature.

Death
Anil panachooran had tested positive for Covid-19 earlier and passed away at KIMS Hospital in Thiruvananthapuram after suffering a massive heart attack. He is survived by wife Maya and their children Maitreyi and Arun His relatives demanded post-mortem and police later registered case against unnatural death. .

Awards

 * Asianet Film award for best Lyricist 2008- Arabikadha,Kadha Parayumbol
 * Filmfare award for best Lyricist 2008