Anveshane Kannada English Search is a 1983 Kannada movie directed and cowritten by T.S. Nagabharana, released in 1983. It starred Girish Karnad, Ananth Nag and Smita Patil playing the pivotal roles.
Ajja Balakrishna is the inquisitive old man who has nothing else to do all day except suspect every single event that occurs around him. Ajja starts hearing radio sounds from the otherwise empty and locked house. This becomes a regular affair before the couple realizes something is amiss. They start noticing the fact that someone visits their home when they are not around. When the couple returns one evening they are shocked out of their living minds when they find a corpse right in the middle of their living room. Shekhar Sunder Raj playing the dead body itself is the victim who seems to have been killed by an unknown hand. Fear and tension strikes the innocent couple whose main problem up until now was to get their daughters to wear shoes for school. They spend an entire night wondering what to do with their unwelcome guest that includes hiding him under their own bed and getting rid of his wallet. Their attempts at getting rid of the corpse go futile thanks to drunks and policemen who strategically appear out of nowhere. Somehow they manage to put the corpse in one of the rooms and the quest Anveshane about why he died in their house begins.Dharwadchap Rotti Girish Karnad visits them one day looking for Shekhar. Shaam starts tracing Rotti and manages to end up in a rather amusing faceoff with him one final day. The story unfolds as we start picking up the chips of the story from Rottis eyes. His connection with Shekhar emerges and all the pieces of this puzzle seem to fall into place. ........
Source: Wikipedia