Kantara Chapter 1 collected 214 crore nett plus across the country in all versions with South India and Maharashtra doing fantastic business while North India was on the weaker side while East and Central were good. These numbers are crazy for Kannada film and only second to KGF 2 for that film industry.

KGF 2 had a 190 crore nett apprx in Hindi alone in four days so that film is a different level and this the main difference. Kantara Chapter 1 has worked at the box office but its probably not worked at a level that was expected for a Kantara sequel outside Maharashtra and South India. The craze of the other big South films was not there in the core Hindi circuits and that is reflected in the collections.

The film picked up $6.25 million overseas which is also excellent but various distributors picked up the film at very high prices despite Kannada films not having much of a market in Overseas. Again here the film would have been dependent on Hindi to go on a run to if the distrubutors were to reach the levels needed but Hindi has not performed at all in Overseas. Telugu and Kannada have scored but these dont run long and fizzle out quick barring some rare exceptions. KGF 2 scored very well in Hindi in Overseas with $9 million. Here Kantara Chapter 1 is unlikely to even reach $2 million in Hindi going by the initial numbers.

The worldwide figures for four days in all versions are around 312 crore with a 55 crore GROSS contribution from overseas and 257 crore GROSS from India. The numbers across India are as follows.

Hindi - 70,00,00,000

Regional Versions (Hindi Circuits) - 3,00,00,000

TOTAL - 73,00,00,000

South (Not Including Hindi)

Nizam / Andhra - 43,00,00,000

Karnataka / Mysore - 60,00,00,000

Tamil Nadu - 19,50,00,000

Kerala - 19,00,00,000

TOTAL - 1,41,50,00,000

GRAND TOTAL - 2,14,50,00,000