Rishab Shetty's Kantara Chapter 1 Roars Past 100 Crore Net in Hindi, Becomes Only Second Kannada Film After KGF 2 To Do So

Mumbai, October 9 - After Yash-fronted KGF: Chapter 2, Hombale Films has delivered the second Kannada film to top 100 crores net collection at the Hindi box office. The period folk action thriller continues to stay strong during the weekdays and has passed the 100 crores mark in 7 days.

Written, directed, and headlined by Rishab Shetty, Kantara Chapter 1 started very well, scoring 18.50 crores net on its Thursday opening day. The film held strong on Friday before showing a solid jump on Saturday and Sunday to finish the opening weekend with 73.50 crores net.

The positive word of mouth for the film helped it put up a good hold on Monday, before the discounted Tuesday saw it jumping by around 30% to collect over 10 crores net. On Wednesday, it maintained a strong hold, scoring approximately 8.25 crores, which pushed the total Hindi collection to around 102 crores in seven days.

Kantara Chapter 1 is only the second Kannada film, after Yash-fronted KGF Chapter 2 (435 crores net) and 11th outright South Indian film ever to cross the 100 crores mark in Hindi. In 2025, the prequel to 2022's Kantara is the first Hindi-dubbed film to breach the milestone.

Overall, Kantara 2, also starring Rukmini Vasanth, Gulshan Devaiah, and Jayram, is the 136th film of all-time to cross the 100 crores net milestone in the Hindi language. The last film to enter this club was Akshay Kumar and Arshad Warsi's courtroom comedy drama Jolly LLB 3.

Meanwhile, the Rishab Shetty-starrer is nearing 450 crores gross collection at the worldwide box office after 7 days. It will cross the 500 crores mark by the second Friday or Saturday to become only the second Kannada movie ever to do so, after KGF 2 (1215 crores).

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