The Girl I Love) is a 2001 Indian Kannada-language romance film directed and written by Nagathihalli Chandrashekar.

He lives with his parents- Madve Manjaiah and Seeta, paternal aunt and her daughter Gauri.

Puttu meets Chinnu (Sheena), an Indian born to an NRI couple in his new American school.

In order to get back Puttu's love, Chinnu escapes her parents' confinement and flees to Basarikatte.

In the end, Gauri stops Puttu from boarding the flight to America as she knew that Chinnu was coming to meet him.

He then conducted the same in Mumbai where he shortlisted Sameer Dattani, a model who had previously appeared in a few advertisements and music videos.

[4] He later shortlisted the female lead Deepa, a Bangalore-based girl who was settled in California, online and a subsequent screen test.

[5] Playback singers Rajesh Krishnan and Nanditha were roped in to do the voice-overs for the lead actors.

Chandrashekhar upon returning to India made another trip to the US, and shot some videos of cars in Detroit before showing it to Murthy, and asked him to compose a tune to it.

[8][9][10] A critic from indiainfo wrote that "The film starts with a bright note but somehow lacks consistency" and added that "But the acting of both Dyan and Deepali is worth mentioning".