Kantara: Second biggest Sandalwood film of all time after KGF 2

Kantara is now in its eleventh week and its box office run has almost completed. The film had a drop in the ninth week post its digital release but was still able to score the fourth biggest ninth week ever. The film holds four weekly records at the Indian box office starting from week five till week eight, while the second biggest for the fourth
week. To date, it has grossed Rs. 361 crores approx in India and another Rs. 36 crores overseas for a global box office total of Rs. 397 crores. The film set various records and crossed several milestones but the most significant was it
created history becoming the highest-grosser of all time in Karnataka taking down the mammoth KGF Chapter 2. The film is the second biggest Sandalwood film of all time just behind KGF 2. Not only these numbers are impressive but how they came is simply unprecedented. It started with Rs. 1.70 crores on opening day in September, with the final number being more than 200 times that. Now, this is because of the late release outside Karnataka but even without that, it managed to l e g 1 0 0 x i n Karnataka. The legs were long outside Karnataka as well with the
Hindi version in N o r t h I n d i a having a multiple of 70x, Kerala going 40 times, and even APTS which is usually f r o n t l o a d e d managed to go 17x. The territorial breakdown for the bo ffice collections of Kantara is as follows:
Karnataka – Rs. 173.25 crores AP/TS – Rs. 59 crores Kerala – Rs. 18.50 crores Tamil Nadu – Rs. 11.75 crores Rest of India – Rs. 98.50 crores India – Rs. 361 crores North America – $2,350,000 Middle East – $1,200,000 Australia/New Zealand – $350,000 UK – $180,000 Singapore – $100,000 Germany – $80,000 Rest of the World – $100,000 Overseas – $4,360,000 / Rs. 36 crores Worldwide – Rs. 397 crores

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