Dhanapati is a Nepali social drama film that was released in theatres on 7 July 2017 with a UA certificate from the censor board. The film was directed by Dipendra K. Khanal, and the story, the screenplay and the dialogue of the picture were all written by Khagendra Lamichhane. The production of the film was managed by Shankar Pandey.

The cast of the film included Khagendra Lamichhane, Surakshya Panta, Prakash Ghimire, Harihar Sharma, Aashant Sharma and Rabi Giri in the main roles. The story of the film follows Dhanapati, a poor man who is suffering from the high poverty of his life, and who is pulled towards the politics of the country after he is not able to pay the school fees of his daughter. He goes into the politics to earn a lot of money, and the film shows the road of his life after that.

Dhanapati was released in the month of July of the year 2017, and the picture was one of the social films of the Nepali cinema of that period. The film was made with the aim of giving the audience the story of the poor people of the country, and the picture was presented as the follow up of the popular film Pashupati Prasad, in which the same team of the director and the writer had worked together. The two films were made by the same hands of Dipendra K. Khanal and Khagendra Lamichhane.

The film was watched by the audience of the social dramas of the country in the halls of the major cities, and it is a part of the record of the Nepali cinema of the year 2017. Dhanapati remains a title of the memory of the audience of the social films of the country, and it is remembered together with the other works of the team of the year of its release.