# Bachelor Party (2024 film)

Bachelor Party is a 2024 Indian Kannada-language comedy film written and directed by Abhijit Mahesh and produced by Rakshit Shetty under Paramvah Studios. It stars Diganth Manchale, Yogesh and Achyuth Kumar in the lead roles. The music was composed by Arjun Ramu, while the cinematography and editing were handled by Arvind S. Kashyap and Abhishek M.
Bachelor Party was theatrically released on 26 January 2024, during Republic Day weekend, to mixed reviews from critics.

## Plot

Santosh, a software engineer, lives an unhappy life without any promotion from his office due to his female colleague and constant nagging from his obnoxious wife Sandhya. Santhosh secretly attends his friend Ashok's bachelor party, where he meets his trouble-making childhood friend Madhav alias "Maddy" and his PT teacher Ashwath Narayan. The party begins and all of them ends up drunk.
The next morning, Santhosh, along with Maddy and Ashwath, finds himself in Bangkok and soon learns that he is the one who took Maddy and Ashwath to Bangkok in a drunken state. The trio roam around Bangkok and have a happy trip, but Santhosh is in for a shock as he learns that Sandhya is having an affair with another person and she has arrived in Bangkok for a trip. The trio sets out to embark on a journey to find Sandhya.
However, they are unknownigly captured by Prakash Anna as he assumed the trio are Indian police officers because of Maddy (Maddy introduced himself, Santhosh and Ashwath as police officers to find Sandhya at the hotel), but Prakash lets them go and secretly sends stickers, which actually contains "Blue Sky", a costly drug in Bangkok, to deliver it to his brother-in-law Mahabala. A misadventure ensues for the trio and Maddy meets and falls for Achara, a single mother, and also meets her son Navin.
The trio gives the bag to Mahabala's assistant and leaves. However, Mahabala finds jackfruits instead of stickers missing as Maddy gave the stickers to Navin in order to make him happy. Mahabala captures Prakash and the trio, when they try to meet Sandhya at her friend's wedding, and demands to find Navin and retrieve the stickers.
Various comedic events ensue in which Mahabala begins a shootout to finish his rival Marchello at the wedding. Maddy earns Achara's trust by saving Navin from the shootout. Mahabala finishes Marchello with unexpected help from Ashwath. Santhosh scolds Sandhya and breaks up with her. In the aftermath, Maddy marries Achara, Santhosh falls in love with Asha (who is revealed to be Santhosh's childhood crush) and Ashwath talks to his son after a long time.

## Cast

* Diganth Manchale as Santhosh
* Yogesh as Madhav aka "Maddy"
* Achyuth Kumar as P.T. Master Ashwath Narayan
* Siri Ravikumar as Sandhya
* Balaji Manohar as Mahabala
* Achara Kirk as Achara
* Prakash Thuminad as Prakash Anna
* Pawan Kumar as Lobo Griffin
* Sowmya Jaganmurthy as Lobo's wife
* Shobaraj as Inspector KD Shobaraj
* Shwetha Srinivas as housekeeper Nagamma
* Sudha Belawadi as Ashwath Narayan's wife
* Jayalakshmi Patil as Sandhya's mother
* Gaana Bhat as Pratibha, Maddy's ex
* Nitin Krishnamurthy as Ashwath Narayan's son (special appearance)
* Jaby Koay as himself (special appearance)
* Guruprasad as TV Guru (special appearance)
* Abhijit Mahesh as Sandhya's boyfriend
* Aindrita Rai in special appearance
* Shine Shetty as Ashok (cameo appearance)

## Production

Initially Diganth, Achyuth Kumar and Rishab Shetty were roped in to play the leading roles, but Rishab was replaced with Yogesh, due to the latter's commitments for Kantara: Chapter 1.

## Soundtrack

Arjun Ramu composed the soundtrack and background score.

## Release
### Theatrical

The film was released theatrically across Karnataka on 26 January 2024 coinciding India's Republic day.

### Home media

The film's digital rights were picked up by Amazon Prime Video and was available for digital streaming from 4 March 2024.

## Controversies

A plagiarism controversy started when MRT Music, a music label, accused Rakshit Shetty and Paramvah Studios of using 2 songs "Nyaya Ellide" and "Omme Ninannu Kantumbha" from Nyaya Ellide (1982) and Gaalimaathu (1981) films respectively in this movie without permission. Naveen Kumar, partner of MRT Music, filed a complaint, highlighting that the music was used without proper licence, leading to a copyright infringement case against Rakshit Shetty.
As per a report by Pinkvilla the Delhi High Court took note of the situation and issued a notice to Rakshit Shetty and Paramvah Studios after they failed to appear in court. The court also ordered the immediate removal of the social media post in which the production house had defended its actions. The court's ruling on August 12, 2024, was clear: Rakshit Shetty and Paramvah Studios must pay Rs 20 lakh as compensation to MRT Music for the unauthorized use of their songs.