Dayal Padmanabhan

Dayal Padmanabhan is an Indian film writer, director and producer, mainly working in Kannada cinema who is a two times Karnataka State award winner and one time Indian Panorama , IFFI( Golden Jublee edition)entrant.

His films include Baa Baro Rasika (2004), Yeshwanth (2005), Circus (2009), Haggada Kone (2014), Actor (2015), Aa Karaala Ratri (2018), and Ranganayaki (2019). His first film as a director was OK Saar OK. His film Haggada Kone and Aa Karaala Ratri received widespread critical acclaim and he won Karnataka State awards for those films under Best Director & Best Film Category in the year 2014 & 2018 respectively. Dayal Padmanabhan competed in the television show Bigg Boss House for Bigg Boss Kannada season 5, and was eliminated on his 21st day. He remade the critically acclaimed Tamil film Kurangu Bommai in Kannada titled Ombattane Dikku starring Yogesh. In 2020, Dayal ventured into the Telugu and Tamil film industries with Anaganaga O Athidhi and Kondraal Paavam, which are the remakes of his own Kannada directorial Aa Karaala Ratri.