Kempe Gowda (film)

Kempe Gowda is a 2011 Kannada-language action film directed by Sudeepa, with dialogues by Anil Kumar, and produced by Shankar Gowda under Shankar Productions. The film stars Sudeepa and Ragini Dwivedi, alongside P. Ravi Shankar, Girish Karnad, Sharan, Mohan Juneja, Orata Prashanth, Karthik Jayaram and Jai Jagadish. It is the remake of the Tamil film Singam. The music was composed by Arjun Janya, while cinematography and editing were handled by S. Krishna and N. M. Vishwa respectively.

Kempegowda was released on 10 March 2011 and became one of the highest-grossing Kannada films of 2011. A namesake sequel titled Kempegowda 2 was released in 2019, but it became a box office bomb.