Kantara: Chapter 1 opened strongly at the Indian box office, collecting Rs. 69-70 crore approx on its first day. This includes nearly Rs. 4.50 crore from the previews on Wednesday night, mostly from Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. The Rishab Shetty starrer will rank as the sixteenth or eighteenth highest first-day grosser ever in India, subject to where the actuals land.

That said, expectations were for an even bigger start, given the Pan-India appreciation the original film had. The letdown was the Hindi , which was going to be the main driver of the collection, but couldn’t meet those lofty expectations, keeping the overall number down. Setting aside the trade expectations, which were for an opening akin to other South sequels like Pushpa 2 or KGF 2 , the film should have gone over

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