Baava Baamaida is a 2001 Indian Kannada language romantic comedy film starring Shivarajkumar and Rambha in the lead roles. The film is directed by Kishore Sarja and based on the Tamil language film Pandithurai (1992) directed by Manoj Kumar. In an interview to Kannada newspaper Vijaya Karnataka, Shivarajkumar had revealed that Chiranjeevi Sarja had worked as an assistant director to his uncle, director Kishore Sarja, on the sets of this movie.