Kantara Box Office: Film Crosses ₹300Cr In One Month, Surpasses KGF: Chapter 1

It has been more than a month since the release of Kantara, and its popularity and box office collection only keeps rising. Globally, the film has crossed the benchmark of ₹300Cr. Primarily a Kannada-language film, its Tamil and Hindi versions are gaining equal popularity among the audience.

Kantara Box Office Collection

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Kantara was released on September 30. Starring Rishab Shetty, Achyuth Kumar, Kishore, Sapthami Gowda and Pramod Shetty, the movie collected somewhere around ₹6Cr. Its first-weekend collection was reported to be more than ₹20Cr.

While this might seem a paltry number, it grossed over ₹50Cr alone from Karnataka in 12 days. On the other hand, its worldwide collection was around ₹80Cr in the same period.

At the end of 34 days, the film’s worldwide earnings stood at ₹305Cr, including its version released in Kannada, Hindi and Tamil. Its success is soaring high and has left behind the lifetime collection of Yash’s KGF: Chapter 1 in Hindi.

Several reports say that Kantara’s collection from Karnataka alone stands at ₹100Cr. Since it has been released in the other two languages, it has sold more tickets than any other big release of 2022. It is now the second-highest-grossing film of Karnataka of all time and for the year 2022.

The film has refused to slow down at the box office and has established that the audience is looking for great content. Directors, scriptwriters, and producers can no longer release just anything and find success without a gripping storyline.

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Kantara Filming & Costumes

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Rishab Shetty is the one who has written it, directed it and even acted in it. It is set in three timelines - 1847, the 1970s, and the 1990s. The team did not have much information available from the books.

Hence they travelled to many villages in the state and met many tribal communities. Dresses were inspired by the details that the tribe shared with the film’s crew, shared the costume designer Pragathi Shetty.

To make scenes appear authentic, the shooting of Kantara (reasons to watch Kantara) happened in four forest locations in Karnataka. Shetty wanted the audience to believe that a particular scene was set in a specific timeline.

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They even used natural resources available in forests to create sets, including a temple, tree house and school. The crew comprised 35 people from Bengaluru and 15 people from Keradi village. Together they worked to understand the culture, study it, and portray it convincingly in the film.

Interestingly, one of the sets was a village with an authentic Kambala racetrack, areca plantations, and traditional houses with courtyards, cowsheds and coops for hens.

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