Kantara Chapter 1 box office collection day 2: Rishab Shetty film makes ₹100 cr, is 2025's highest grossing Kannada film

Kantara Chapter 1 box office collection day 2: The Rishab Shetty film has become the highest-grossing Kannada film of the year, beating Su From So.

Kantara Chapter 1 box office collection: After a bumper opening on Dusshera, Kannada film Kantara Chapter 1 has kept up the momentum on Friday as well. The film saw the expected dip on Friday, a working day after the festive release day, but still managed to pull in good crowds throughout the day.

Kantara Chapter 1 box office collection day 2: Rishab Shetty earned praise for his performance and direction.

Kantara Chapter 1 box office update

A prequel to the 2022 blockbuster Kantara, this Rishab Shetty-starrer opened at ₹61.85 crore net in India on Thursday. Of this, ₹19.60 crore came from the Kannada version, while ₹18.50 crore came from the Hindi-dubbed version. The Tamil, Telugu, and Malayalam versions of the film also did well on the opening day, making it a pan-India success on day 1 itself.

According to Sacnilk, on Friday, the film added ₹45 crore net in domestic collections, taking its India haul to ₹106.85 crore. The film has still managed to hold on to the momentum with great word-of-mouth publicity and praise from several filmmakers from the industry.

This makes Kantara Chapter 1 the highest-grossing Kannada film of the year. It has now surpassed the collection of Su From So, which earned ₹92 crore net in India last month.

Trade experts say that Kantara Chapter 1 has done well overseas too, bringing home approximately $2 million from outside India. Its worldwide gross on day 1 was approximately ₹90 crore.

All about Kantara Chapter 1

Written and directed by Rishab Shetty, the original Kantara was a sleeper hit, earning over ₹400 crore worldwide on a ₹15 crore budget. The prequel - Kantara Chapter 1 - is set a thousand years before the events of the film. Apart from Rishab in the lead, the film also stars Rukmini Vasanth, Jayaram, and Gulshan Devaiah.