By: Entertainment DeskNew Delhi | October 3, 2025 08:58 AM IST 3 min readKantara Chapter 1 box office collection Day 1: Rishab Shetty's film earned Rs 60 crore on opening day.Kantara Chapter 1 box office collection Day 1: Rishab Shetty’s Kantara Chapter 1, the second part of the franchise that began in 2022, was released in theatres on Gandhi Jayanti. On its first day of release, the film made Rs 60 crore in India. The first film, which emerged as a word of mouth hit, made around Rs 2 crore on its opening day, and went on to make over Rs 309 crore in India, and over Rs 407 crore worldwide.Kantara Chapter 1 had over 8800 shows in India, and was released in Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, Hindi and Malayalam. In Hindi, the film had around 4700 shows with around 30 percent overall occupancy, and in Kannada, the film had around 1500 shows, with around 88 percent overall occupancy. In Telugu, Tamil and Malayalam, the film had around 1000, 840 and 600 shows, respectively, with Telugu and Tamil witnessing over 70 percent occupancy, and Malayalam observing around 65 percent occupancy.Earlier this year, Hombale Films, which also produced Kantara Chapter 1, had a major success with Mahavatar Narsimha. The film made Rs 250 crore in India, and Rs 325 crore worldwide. Kantara Chapter 1’s start has been almost as good as Ranjinikanth’s Coolie, which made Rs 65 crore on its first day in India. However, it fell short of the Rs 63 crore opening posted by Pawan Kalyan’s They Call Him OG.ALSO READ | India’s richest actress hasn’t done a film in 2 years; earned Rs 3,190 cr in one year, has a mammoth Rs 7,790 crore empireThe second part of the franchise was announced after the monstrous success of the original film in 2022. It has been in the making since March 2023 and since then, there have been many reports about accidents on the set of the film. Reportedly, a few months ago, a boat carrying around 30 people, including director Rishab Shetty, capsized mid-stream. Fortunately, there were no fatalities or severe injuries. In 2024, a bus carrying the crew members overturned resulting in a few injuries. At the time, Hombale Films said that the injuries were not severe.Previously, three artistes who worked on the film passed away. In a chat with SCREEN, Rishab spoke about the same and said, “Definitely it’s a huge loss, but we cannot connect it to the film. It’s about human life, out of the three people we lost, two were junior artists, one of them had not even reached our set, he was on the way when he had some health issues, and later we got to know he had a heart attack. We sent the manager there to take him to the hospital and get the post-mortem and other formalities sorted.”Talking about the second death, Rishab said that this too, did not happen on their set. “We were rehearsing in another town, there was a temple, and a river was close by. There was a board that said it was an accident-prone area, but youngsters want to explore; he went there, and the accident happened,” he said and also remembered the demise of actor Rakesh Poojary. “Rakesh Poojary’s loss was huge; he has played a prominent character in the film. He was with me for many days and was like my brother,” he said. Rakesh died of a heart attack weeks after the shoot of Kantara Chapter 1 wrapped.Click here to follow Screen Digital on YouTube and stay updated with the latest from the world of cinema.© IE Online Media Services Pvt Ltd