| Bicchugatti: Chapter 1 − Dalvayi Dange | |
| Director: | Hari Santhosh |
| Producer: | S.P Gnanesh Tejasvi |
| Screenplay: | Om Sai Krishna Productions |
| Starring: | Rajavardan Hariprriya Prabhakar |
| Music: | Hamsalekha Nakul Abhyankar |
| Cinematography: | Guru Prasanth Rai |
| Editing: | Bharath Raj |
| Studio: | Om Sai Krishna Productions |
| Distributor: | Mars Distributors |
| Runtime: | 141 minutes |
| Country: | India |
| Language: | Kannada |
Bicchugatti: Chapter 1 − Dalvayi Dange is a 2020 Indian Kannada language historical-period film directed by Hari Santhosh, produced by Om Sai Krishna under his own banner Om Sai Krishna Productions. The film, starring Rajavardhan[1] and Hariprriya is an adaptation of novel Bichhugathi Baramanna Nayaka by Dr. B.L Venu's, based on the Palegaras of Chitradurga. The film also features Kalyanee Raju Sparsha Rekha and Prabhakar of Bahubali fame in the supporting cast.[2] [3] [4] The music for the film is scored by Hamsalekha and Nakul Abhyankar. The cinematography is done by Guru Prasanth Raj.[5] The film was released on 28 February 2020.
Rajavardan has been signed in for the sequel Bicchugatthi: Chapter 2.
The film is produced by Om Sai Krishna. The film had a muhurtha on 10 December 2018 at Rockline Studios. Darshan was invited as the guest to launch the film. The movie first had Rajvardhan, who is debuting as a lead actor through this movie, on board. Later, Hariprriya was on board as the lead actress for the film. Hamsalekha was on board for scoring the music for the film after a long time. After the launch of the first look, the team got more appreciation seeking this they are planning to release the film in other South Indian languages like Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Hindi[6] The film was wrapped up by 30 April 2019.[7] The lead actors had completed their portions of dubbing by 9 September 2019.[8]
The film's soundtracks were composed by Nakul Abhyankar and lyrics by V. Nagendra Prasad. The music rights were acquired by OSK Productions.
The film was released on 28 February 2020.[9]
Before the release, the film team got appreciation from director S.S. Rajamouli seeing the few stills of the film.[10]