Kantara Chapter 1 dethrones Chhaava to become the highest-grossing Indian film of 2025, crosses ₹800 crore

Kantara Chapter 1 has grossed over ₹800 crore worldwide, surpassing Vicky Kaushal's Chhaava to become the highest-grossing Indian film of 2025.

Updated on: Oct 23, 2025, 18:31:09 IST

By Abhimanyu Mathur

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The crown of the highest-grossing Indian film of 2025 has been passed on from Chhaava to Kantara Chapter 1. The Rishab Shetty film crossed ₹800 crore in box office collections worldwide on Wednesday, and also leapt past Chhaava’s lifetime collections of ₹807 crore in the process.

Rishab Shetty directed and plays the lead in Kantara Chapter 1, the prequel to Kantara.

Kantara Chapter 1 box office update

According to Hombale Films, the production house behind Kantara Chapter 1, the period actioner earned ₹717 crore worldwide in its first two weeks. The studio made this announcement on Friday in the form of a social media post. In its third week, the film has continued earning at a breakneck pace, adding ₹38 crore net in India in its third weekend. Since then, the film has added ₹92 crore gross worldwide in six days, which would take its total to ₹809 crore worldwide. This is higher than Chhaava’s final haul of ₹807 crore.

However, other sources claim that Kantara Chapter 1 is still some distance away from Chhaava’s record, with Sacnilk putting its worldwide haul somewhere around ₹775 crore after 21 days (as of Wednesday night). Kantara Chapter 1 has earned ₹556.75 crore net in India and an estimated $13 million overseas. An English-language version is now set to release later this month.

The highest-grossing Indian films of 2025

In the list of the highest-grossing Indian films of 2025, Kantara Chapter 1 and Chhaava are followed by Mohit Suri’s Saiyaara, which collected ₹576 crore worldwide. Rajinikanth’s Coolie, with a worldwide haul of over ₹500 crore, sits in the number four spot, while Yash Raj Films’ spy thriller War 2 rounds up the top 5 with a final collection of ₹365 crore. Three other Indian films – Mahavatar Narsimha, OG, and Lokah Chapter 1 – have grossed over ₹300 crore this year. Only one other Hindi film makes it into the top 10 – Aamir Khan’s Sitaare Zameen Par, which is just behind Mohanlal’s L2: Empuraan.

All about Kantara Chapter 1

Written and directed by Rishab Shetty, Kantara Chapter 1 is a sequel to the 2022 blockbuster Kantara. It is the second-highest-grossing Kannada film ever, only behind KGF Chapter 2. The film also stars Rukmini Vasanth, Jayaram, and Gulshan Devaiah.

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Abhimanyu Mathur
Abhimanyu Mathur is Deputy Editor, Entertainment at Hindustan Times. With almost 15 years of experience in writing about everything from films and TV shows to cricket matches and elections, he inhales and exhales pop culture and news. Currently, he watches movies and TV shows and talks to celebrities for a living, while occasionally writing about them as well. A journalism graduate of Delhi College of Arts and Commerce, Delhi University, Abhimanyu began his career with Hindustan Times at the age of 20, swapping classrooms for newsrooms at an early age. He began his journey in the early days of digital journalism, later switching to the madness of print journalism. Work has led him to far off places like Japan and Jordan, as well as to the interiors of Haryana and the Indo-Pak border. He dabbled in city reporting in places like Meerut, Gurgaon, and Delhi, covered the Olympics and Cricket World Cups, before finding his calling in entertainment and lifestyle during the pandemic. A Rotten Tomatoes Certified Film Critic, he is equally at home covering stories on ground as he is interviewing celebrities and studios, and sometimes prefers to shepherd teams in delivering traffic through the day. Even as his role has evolved from reporter to supervisor over the years, his first love remains writing (and of late, talking on camera). With a good understanding of cinema and its trends, and a keen eye for detail, he continues to spark conversations around showbiz for readers around the world.Read More

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