Kempiruve
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| Directed by | Venkat Bharadwaj |
| Written by | Venkat Bharadwaj Karthik Urs (unc.) |
| Starring | H. G. Dattatreya Sayaji Shinde Laxman Shivashankar Shreyas |
| Music by | Nadhu Jabezz |
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Running time | 127 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Kannada |
Kempiruve (transl. Red ants) is a 2017 Indian Kannada-language drama film directed by Venkat Bharadwaj and co-written by Karthik Urs, a senior manager at Capgemini. The film stars H. G. Dattatreya as Venkatesh Murthy, a retired middle-class man, alongside Sayaji Shinde, Umesh Banekar, Laxman Shivashankar, and Shreyas. Set in Bengaluru, it explores the struggles of the middle class against the real estate mafia, using the metaphor of red ants to depict the resilience of ordinary people. Released on 17 November 2017, the film received the Karnataka State Film Award for Best Screenplay in 2017.