 Swayamvaram marked several debuts — directorial of Gopalakrishnan , acting of the Malayalam star Bharath Gopi , and film producing of the Chitralekha Film Cooperative , an organisation cofounded by Gopalakrishnan himself . The film features an original score by M. B. Sreenivasan , camerawork by Mankada Ravi Varma , and film editing by <unk> . Writer @-@ director K. P. Kumaran co @-@ scripted the film with Gopalakrishnan . It took seven years for Gopalakrishnan to get the project rolling when his initial proposal for a loan to make a film was turned down by the Film Finance Corporation ( FFC ) . The FFC later partially financed the film when Chitralekha provided the rest . 
