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  • Rishab Shetty’s ‘Kantara’ Scores $36.5 Million

    Rishab Shetty’s ‘Kantara’ Scores $36.5 Million

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    Rishabh Shetty’s surprise hit Kantara continues to score big even as it completed the fourth week of its release in India. It has earned $36.5 million by the end of the fourth week of the release across all languages. The Kannada film released on September 30 and the subsequent box office success led to a quick release of the Hindi version of the film on October 14.

    The Hindi version of Kantara alone is giving tough competition to latest Bollywood releases including Ajay Devgn-starrer Thank God and Akshay Kumar’s Ram Setu. Kantara scored the highest in the Hindi belt on Saturday, collecting $0.45million. Thank God collected $0.048 million and Ram Setu collected 0.15 million in the Indian markets. The Hindi version of the film alone has collected $6.5 million in total.

    Kantara has also topped Kannada films’ collection in the Hindi belts. Collecting $6.5 million, Hindi version of the film surpassed the previous record set by Yash-starrer KG Chapter 1 in 2018 (the Hindi version collected $5.1 million).

    Set with the backdrop of traditional beliefs of ‘Daivaradhane’ prevalent in certain regions of the Indian state of Karnataka, the film is about man’s conflict with nature. It also showcases the ritual of ‘Bhoot Kola’ that involves worshipping of local spirits and deities. The person performing the ritual is believed to turn into God himself at the moment of the performance. The God even listens to people’s problems and offers advices. Shetty essays the lead role in the film that also stars Kishore, Sapthami Gowda, and Achyuth Kumar. The film was made on an estimated budget of $2.5 million.

    Even Indian ministers are praising the film. Commerce and Industry minister Piyush Goyal said at an investors’ event that the industry must note the success of Kantara and how it has already scored almost 20 times of the investment amount. Finance minister of India Nirmala Sitharaman also watched the film and appreciated Shetty later.

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  • ‘Kantara’ box office: Rishab Shetty film crosses Yash’s ‘KGF: Chapter 1’ collection in Hindi

    ‘Kantara’ box office: Rishab Shetty film crosses Yash’s ‘KGF: Chapter 1’ collection in Hindi

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    The Hindi version of the Rishab Shetty-starrer Kantara is going from strength to strength at the box office. The film has collected Rs 47.55 crore in the end of its second week in theatres and is set to hit the Rs 50 crore mark soon. The Hindi version of the Yash-starrer KGF-Chapter 1, on the other hand, collected a total of Rs 44.09 crore in its lifetime collections. 

    The Rishab Shetty and Sapthami Gowda-starrer raked in Rs 2.75 crore on Friday, Rs 4.10 crore on Saturday, Rs 4.40 crore on Sunday, Rs 2.30 crore on Monday and Rs 2.30 crore Tuesday, as per film critic and trade analyst Taran Adarsh. 

    Kantara is centred around a local demigod who trades forest land to the tribe’s people with a king in the 1870s in exchange for happiness and also has traditions of Kambala (annual bull race) and Bhootha Kola (traditional involving spirit worship). The film features Rishab Shetty as Kaadubbetu Shiva and his father. 

    Besides Shetty, it features Sapthami Gowda, Achyuth Kumar, Kishore, Manasi Sudhir and Pramod Shetty in pivotal roles. Hombale Films, known for KGF franchise and Prabhas’ upcoming film Salaar, has backed the film. 

    The latest pan-India offering from Sandalwood or Kannada film industry has garnered massive praise from people across film industries like Sivaji The Boss and Robot actor Rajinikanth, The Kashmir Files director Vivek Agnihotri, Manikarnika actor Kangana Ranaut, Allu Arjun, KGF director Prashanth Neel, Jana Gana Mana actor Prithviraj Sukumaran and Urmila Matondkar. 

    While the Hindi version of Kantara was released on October 14, Tamil and Telugu versions were out on October 15. The Malayalam version was released on October 20 under Prithviraj Sukumaran’s banner Prithviraj Productions.

    Also read: Kantara box office collection: Rishab Shetty’s film breaks records, crosses Rs 200 crore mark in India

    Also read: Kantara secures top spot in IMDb India’s Current Top 250 Films List; surpasses 1993 anime Ramayana

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  • ‘Kantara’ box office: Rishab Shetty-starrer goes all guns blazing, mints Rs 100 cr globally

    ‘Kantara’ box office: Rishab Shetty-starrer goes all guns blazing, mints Rs 100 cr globally

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    Rishab Shetty and Sapthami Gowda-starrer action-thriller Kantara has minted a total of Rs 100 crore in terms of worldwide gross box office collections. Most of this collection has come from its Kannada version and its Telugu and Hindi versions have started to pick up as well, according to film trade analyst Ramesh Bala. 

    Bala tweeted, “Massive success for Kantara as it enters the Rs 100 crore worldwide gross club.. Mostly from the Kannada version.. Telugu and Hindi- the box office rampage has just started…”

    Kantara IMDb ratings, reviews

    Moreover, Kantara has an IMDb rating of 9.4 out of 10 at the time of writing this story. This is much higher than SS Rajamouli-directorial RRR and Yash and Sanjay Dutt-starrer KGF: Chapter 2. While RRR has a rating of 8 out of 10, KGF Chapter has a rating of 8.4 out of 10 on IMDb. 

    A user wrote on IMDb, “South movies are best now realised why. Great topic, direction and acting… Guys must watch. Goosebumps after watching it. I was unaware who the actor was but after watching I became a fan of his. Must watch!”

    Another user noted, “We saw Avatar, Inception, Tenet, etc. but this is beyond cinema. What a great piece of art. We are destroying our nature and in turn nature started asking it back by way of COVID-19 or whatever you remember. We are encroaching on every natural resource to satisfy our needs. This movie is the last warning to all of us who have forgotten our culture.”

    Sapthami Gowda and Rishab Shetty on Kantara’s success

    Commenting on the overwhelming response to Kantara, actor Sapthami Gowda told India Today, “I think there’s an underlying issue that we’re trying to talk about in the movie, that is you know the human and the encroachment issues but it’s being said in a way that everybody can connect with”. She added the film has all the components that any other film comprises such as love story, humour, conflict, reasoning behind every character and a beautiful climax. 

    Shetty, on the other hand, did not anticipate the concept of the movie to become such a big hit. Both Gowda and Shetty were in an exclusive interaction with India Today TV’s Akshita Nandagopal. 

    About Kantara

    Kantara focuses on the man vs nature conflict and features Rishab Shetty in a double role. It also has rituals such as Kambala and Bhoota Kola in the backdrop. The film features Shetty as Kaadubettu Shiva and Shiva’s father. Kantara also features actors like Sapthami Gowda, Achyuth Kumar, Kishore, Pramod Shetty, Prakash Thuminad and Manasi Sudhir in significant roles. 

    Kantara has been produced by KGF producers Hombale Films and has been distributed by AA Films in Hindi, Geetha Arts in Telugu, Prithviraj Productions in Malayalam and Dream Warrior Pictures in Tamil.

    Also read: ‘New avenues have opened’: Kantara’s Rishab Shetty on how Kannada films became widely accepted after Yash’s KGF

    Also read: Rishab Shetty’s Kantara surpasses Yash’s KGF: Chapter 2, SS Rajamouli’s RRR on IMDb 

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