Kantara Chapter 1 sees a good opening in all South states on its first day, and the film holds strong on day 2 too. However, the film faces struggles in Hindi and overseas and falls short of expectations.
As said above, the spiritual action drama opened well in South India, but in Hindi the trend is not good. It opens with below-par numbers of 18 Cr net in India, and surprisingly, day 2 is trending even less than that.
For films like KGF-2, Baahubali-2, and Pushpa-2, Hindi numbers are huge. Whereas as of now, Kantara’s prequel is not even looking good enough to go for 200 Cr, and it looks like a hurricane task going by the current trend.
The Rishab Shetty directorial also has the same story with Overseas. Yash and Prashanth Neel’s KGF-2 collected 27 million overseas, and there were expectations that Kantara chapter 1 would at least target 15 million overseas.
But shockingly, on opening day, the film sees a start of just around $1.5M, and it is not witnessing the jump further. Even doing 1/3rd of KGF Chapter 2 numbers looks very tough for the film.
Overall, Kantara Chapter 1 is not having the expected surge in Hindi numbers, and this trend is definitely not good for the film to post huge numbers. It needs a massive turnaround overseas and Hindi to put up big numbers at the box office.