Beladingala Baale

Beladingala Baale (transl. Lady in the moonlight) is a 1995 Kannada-language film directed by Sunil Kumar Desai, starring Anant Nag and Suman Nagarkar. It is based on a Telugu novel titled Vennello Adapilla by Yandamuri Veerendranath which was translated into Kannada by Vamshi titled Beladingala Baale which was also serialised in Sudha, a Kannada weekly magazine. Vamshi, who translated the novel into Kannada, wrote dialogues for the movie or rather dialogues from the novel are adapted in the film without any modifications. The story revolves around Revanth (played by Ananth Nag), a chess grandmaster who is set to find out the identity of his fan, who calls him often and whom he refers to as "Beladingala Baale". Beladingala Baale gives Revanth the clues to find her out. How Revanth accomplishes his task forms the gist of the movie.

Director Desai wanted to remake the movie in Tamil with Kamal Haasan but Haasan refused to be a part of it citing that it is not possible for anyone to replicate Anant's expressions in the moments of silence. The film was blockbuster at the box office.