It features an ensemble cast consisting of Ganesh, Anant Nag, Rajesh Krishnan, Diganth, Daisy Bopanna, Neethu and Bhavana Rao.

The plot revolves around three friends who, debilitated of city life, decide to spend some time in the paternal house of one of them, at a picturesque location atop a hill station.

The film was released on 18 January 2008 to critical acclaim, receiving praise for the screenplay, cinematography, and the performances of Nag, Neethu and Ganesh.

Three childhood friends — Ganesh, an MBA graduate; Diganth, a medical student; and Kitty, an engineer, are caught by police for drunk driving on a night in Bangalore.

Once there, they are introduced to and begin to stay at the guesthouse of Kodandaram, an avid hunter, the neighbor and friend of Diganth's grandfather.

Kodandaram, now handicapped from a hunting accident and confined to a wheelchair, lives with his wife Padma, daughter-in-law Sowmya, and daughters Radha and Pavani.

As days pass by, Diganth develops feeling towards Radha, who reciprocates, and Pavani towards Kitty, who falls in love with her as well.

However, the role of Puneeth later went to Ganesh, at a time when Mungaru Male, his film with Bhat was still performing strongly at theatres, and his signing was confirmed on 16 June.

It was also revealed that Anant Nag, H. G. Dattatreya, Rangayana Raghu, Sudha Belawadi, Padmaja Rao would be appearing in supporting roles, with R. Rathnavelu as the cinematographer and V. Harikrishna as the composer.

A major portion of the shoot took place in the misty hills of Mandalapatti, at the forest limits of Pushpagiri, in the Coorg region of Karnataka.

Sequences shot here and the surroundings of Ripponpete by the cloud-covered Kodachadri peak were shown in parallel in the film, under then name Mugilpet, which in Kannada translates to "the town of clouds".

[12] The visual effects work of total time of 2 minutes and 40 seconds of sequences featuring the boar cost around ₹750,000.

[15] V. Harikrishna scored the film's background music and composed its soundtrack, lyrics for which was penned by Jayant Kaikini, Yogaraj Bhat and Hrudaya Shiva.

[16] It was released in Bangalore on 16 December 2007 in the form of audio cassettes and compact discs, both of which were then distributed to buyers attached to a kite, symbolic to the title of the film.

[24] R. G. Vijayasarathy of Rediff called it "a class act" and wrote, "Bhat has unleashed his best writing and narrating talents in this delightfully original and slickly presented entertainer which is witty, pretty and emotional."

Especially praising Ganesh's performance, he further added, "Nature's beauty is artistically captured by cameraman Randy aka Rathnavelu.

Award winning technicians like editor Suresh Urs and art director Shashidhar Adapa have effectively performed their tasks too.

"[20] Writing for The Times of India, G. S. Kumar wrote, "This is a masterpiece by director Yogaraj Bhat after the success of his earlier film Mungaru Male.

Applauding the performance of each of the lead actors, he concluded, "...it is Rathnavelu who walks away with all honours for his brilliant handling of the camera.

It is the writer in Yogaraj Bhat who comes off with flying colours again and his eagerness to go offbeat in narration is certain to lease a large number of audience who seek a big quota of freshness in the film."

The flow of developments set with beautiful backdrop and tolerable artistes handling the roles makes this film worth watching.

He further wrote, "Yogaraj Bhat picks the similar locations with most dangerous water falls like Shivanasamudra, Kodachadri and exquisite mountains ranges of Karnataka.

[34] The director Yograj Bhat have confirmed the sequel of the movie named Gaalipata 2 starring different ensemble cast produced by Ramesh reddy.

[44] The nickname 'Doodh Peda' (an Indian sweet), by which Ganesh addresses to him as, in the film, came to be attached with his name in the media along with a tag of 'Chocolate Hero'.