The magic of ‘Kantara Chapter 1’ still remains strong in theatres. This film of Rishabh Shetty is attracting the audience to the theaters even in the second week and remains strong even on working days. The film is getting huge response from the audience and is rapidly moving towards new records at the box office.
Till now, the highest grossing Indian film of 2025 is Vicky Kaushal starrer ‘Chhaava’, which had collected around Rs 808 crore worldwide. Now ‘Kantara ‘Chapter 1’ has become the second biggest Indian film of 2025 and is in the race to overtake ‘Chhaava’.
How are the earnings of ‘Kantara Chapter 1’?
Rishabh Shetty The first week of the film was very strong at the box office. Due to its release on Thursday, the first week collection of this film includes the earnings of 8 days. In the first 8 days, the film had collected a worldwide gross collection of Rs 475 crore at the box office, of which more than Rs 400 crore was earned from India alone.
The film took a big jump in the weekend and made a worldwide collection of around Rs 180 crore from Friday to Sunday. The film had a worldwide collection of Rs 335 crore in the first weekend of 4 days. That means, by the second weekend, its earnings have reduced by around 40%, which is a very strong hold at the box office.
Hombale Films, makers of ‘Kantara Chapter 1’, claimed on Monday that the worldwide gross collection of the film has reached Rs 655 crore in 11 days. According to this, by the completion of the second week at the box office on Thursday, the worldwide collection of the film will exceed Rs 700 crore.
At present, till Monday its net India collection has crossed Rs 450 crore. In which the net collection of the Hindi version itself has reached close to Rs 150 crore.
Will the record of ‘Chaava’ be broken?
There will be a jump in the collections of ‘Kantara Chapter 1’ once again in the coming weekend. The festive atmosphere of Diwali will start from the weekend itself and will continue till Bhaidooj on Tuesday. In these 5 days, many big films will definitely come from Tamil, Telugu and Hindi industries. But in such an environment, ‘Kantara’ will be a safe option for the family audience who reaches theaters in groups.
If Rishabh Shetty’s film crosses the 700 crore mark worldwide by Thursday, then the weekend combo with the Diwali atmosphere will easily take it to 800 crore to 850 crore in these 5 days. Anyway, ‘Kantara Chapter 1’ has received such support from the public that it will do business for at least a month.
In such a situation, there is every chance that it can even go up to Rs 900 crore. That means, it is almost certain that ‘Kantara Chapter 1’ is going to be the biggest Indian film of this year, leaving ‘Chhaava’ behind. Eyes will be on whether it is able to touch the magical figure of Rs 1000 crore in its entire run or not.
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