Rishab Shetty’s spiritual action drama Kantara Chapter 1 released today amidst good hype, and the film sees a good opening on Day 1 in India, as all languages contributed to the numbers for the film.
The Kannada version hits maximum occupancies throughout the day, and the Telugu version is the second one occupancy-wise, followed by Tamil and Malayalam. The Hindi version’s occupancies are a bit disappointing, though.
In Telugu states the film opening seems to be close to 15 Cr, while Karnataka will be more than 20 Cr including premieres, with 6 Cr around gross from Kerala. The Tamil Nadu gross is around 5 Cr, while North India’s gross is around 20 Cr.
Overall, Kantara Chapter 1 sees a good opening at the Indian box office with around 65 Cr gross. The opening could have gone to 100 Cr had the team rightly promoted the film and created much higher buzz.
We need to see how this film goes from here, and it needs to target more than 200 Cr the first weekend in India.