Kantara Chapter 1 worldwide box office collection day 3: Rishab Shetty film mints ₹225 crore; beats Gangubai Kathiawadi

Kantara Chapter 1 worldwide box office collection day 3: Rishab Shetty's film has crossed the ₹200-crore mark by Saturday.

Updated on: Oct 5, 2025, 09:50:22 IST

By Abhimanyu Mathur

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Kantara Chapter 1 worldwide box office collection: Rishab Shetty's Kantara Chapter 1 is in no mood of slowing down at the ticket window. After a bumper opening on Dussehra, the film has gained new legs over the weekend, seeing an increase in earnings on Saturday and soaring past the ₹200 crore mark in just three days.

Kantara Chapter 1 worldwide box office collection day 3: Rukmini Vasanth also stars in the Rishab Shetty film.

Kantara Chapter 1 box office update

Kantara Chapter 1 earned ₹162.85 crore net ( ₹195.50 crore gross) domestically over the first three days of its run at the Indian box office. On Saturday, the film earned an estimated ₹55 crore net domestically, an increase of just under 20% from the Friday haul of ₹46 crore. The period action drama has continued to sell theatres across India, registering a staggering 94% occupancy for the Kannada version's night shows on Saturday. The Hindi version of the film has also done well, minting over ₹40 crore by itself in India.

Overseas, too, Kantara Chapter 1 has done well for a film of its size and scale, earning over $3 million in its first three days. According to trade insiders, this has taken its worldwide gross to ₹225 crore in three days.

On Saturday, Kantara Chapter 1 went passed the lifetime collections of some recent big releases, including Salman Khan's Sikandar ( ₹176 crore), Ram Charan's Game Changer ( ₹200 crore), and Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Gangubai Kathiawadi ( ₹210 crore). It has its sights set on the ₹250-crore mark, which it should easily reach by Sunday afternoon.

All about Kantara Chapter 1

Kantara Chapter 1 is a prequel to the 2022 sleeper hit Kantara, which had earned over ₹400 crore worldwide on a ₹15 crore budget. The film, written and directed by Rishab Shetty, is set a thousand years before the events of the first film. Apart from Rishab in the lead, 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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