Kantara box office collection update: Rishab Shetty film to fly past Rs. 50 cr. mark

Kantara has seen out the first week of its theatrical run with excellent box office results. The Rishab Shetty directorial hit the screens on September 30 amid positive hype and thanks to the unanimous praise showered by both the critics and audiences all over, the film is now on course to be a massive commercial success.

As revealed by the latest trade reports, Kantara's week #1 domestic collections are a shy away from the Rs. 45 crores mark (gross) and Rs. 37.80 crores in terms of net collections. The worldwide collections have amounted to Rs. 48 crores (gross) with Rs. 3.4 crores, reportedly, coming in as the overseas earnings. 

Following a superb outing on Vijayadashami (Wednesday, Day 6), the domestic box office collections of Kantara saw a slight dip on Day 7 or Thursday with the film earning approximately Rs. 4.80 crores in net value. The same reports state the film had a 72.2% occupancy on Thursday which is pretty high for a regional film on a weekday.

Kantara can be expected to collect more than Rs. 4 crores on the second Friday of its theatrical run and take the combined global collections over Rs. 50 crores. With the film encountering no competition at the Kannada box office this entire week, one can expect it to have another successful weekend. 

Hombale Films, the makers of Kantara, are currently engrossed in dubbing and re-releasing the film in other Indian languages and the trailer of the Hindi version will drop on Sunday, October 9. The film's overwhelming success across the country is said to have prompted the makers to dub the film into multiple languages and more updates on the same are currently awaited.  

Written and directed by Rishab Shetty, Kantara stars Shetty himself in the lead role with Kishore, Sapthami Gowda, Achyuth Kumar, and others playing key roles in the film. Audiences have also praised B. Ajaneesh Loknath's superb score and cinematographer Arvind S. Kashyap's visual rendition of the film.