Chitte

Chitte (transl. Butterfly) is a 2001 Indian Kannada-language romantic drama film directed by Dinesh Baboo and starring Anirudh and Chaya Singh.

Chitte
VCD cover
Directed by	Dinesh Baboo
Written by	Dinesh Baboo
Produced by	C Pandu
Starring	Anirudh Chaya Singh
Cinematography	P K H Das
Edited by	B S Kemparaj
Music by	V. Manohar
Production company	Chennam Productions
Release date	16 October 2001 (2001-10-16)
Country	India
Language	Kannada

Cast

• Ananth Nag as Shanthi's father
• Anirudh as Anil
• Chaya Singh as Shanthi
• Dwarakish as a lorry driver
• Chitra Shenoy
• Damini
• Avinash
• Ramesh Pandit
• M. S. Umesh as a doctor
• Mandeep Roy
• Sharan as Putnarsa
• Master Anand
• Vinayak Joshi
• Vanitha Vasu
• Vijayalakshmi Singh

Production

The film marked the debut of Aniruddha Jatkar and the lead debut of Chaya Singh.^[1] The film has eight songs by V. Manohar including one poem by D. R. Bendre. Re-recording for the film was set to begin on 25 August 2001.^[2] Some scenes were shot at Mayura Valley view guest house at Srirangapatna.^[3]

Music

The music was composed by V. Manohar, who also wrote the lyrics.^[4]

Track listing

No.	Title	Singer(s)	Length
1.	"Twinkle Twinkle Little Star"	Gurukiran	4:32
2.	"Chitte Chitte Haaditho"	Rajesh Krishnan, K. S. Chithra	4:48
3.	"Olavalli Nanna"	K. S. Chithra	5:33
4.	"Olagade Yaar Illa"	Rajesh Krishnan	3:54
5.	"Namma Maneya"	Rajesh Krishnan	5:15
6.	"Chora Chori"	Gurukiran	4:39
7.	"Yaarigu Helonubeda"	C. Ashwath	3:18
8.	"Belakku Iruvatanakane"	Rajesh Krishnan, K. S. Chithra	4:12
Total length:			36:11

Release and reception

The film was initially scheduled to release in the first week of October.^[2] Chaya Singh was conscious about how Chitte would fare at the box office and did not commit to any films for almost half a year.^[5]

Sify wrote "Dinesh Babu tries to recreate the magic of his earlier film Chitra and Laali, still Chitte falls flat. He is trying to serve sour wine in the same old bottle! Babu it is time to avoid this theory of making hay while the sun shines. The audience on the first day itself was hooting".^[6]