Cinema is not just storytelling; it’s about preserving culture, emotion, and religion. There are fewer films in contemporary history that have done it the way Kantara did in 2022. Now, its highly ...

Rishab Shetty’s Kantara: A Legend - Chapter 1 has opened to an extraordinary response, creating history at the box office with over 5000 housefull shows worldwide on release day. From his humble ...

When 'Kantara' was first released, it was a modest, regional film with big dreams and no expectations. For Rishab Shetty and his wife, Pragathi Shetty, it was simply about telling a story rooted in ...

Shrishty is a decade-old journalist covering a variety of beats between politics to pop culture, but movies are her first love, which led her to study Film and TV Development at UCLAx. She lives and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Indian star and filmmaker Rishab Shetty’s “Kantara” released in 2022, few could have predicted that a Kannada-language film ...

Ranveer Singh has apologized for remarks made at IFFI 2025, where he mistakenly referred to a goddess as a 'female ghost' while praising Rishabh Shetty's 'Kantara' performance. Hindu groups filed a ...

Ranveer Singh has finally reacted to the furore over Rishab Shetty's Kantara. At the closing ceremony of IFFI 2025 in Goa, the Dhurandhar actor imitated an iconic scene from Rishab Shetty's Kantara: A ...

I love everything about movies and have an eagle eye for the tiniest of details. Have a bad habit of making jokes in the most uncomfortable moments and I amplify the awkwardness with my dry humour. I ...

Rishabh Shetty’s surprise hit Kantara continues to score big even as it completed the fourth week of its release in India. It has earned $36.5 million by the end of the fourth week of the release ...

Every Halloween brings the “appropriation” discussion to the fore again, with debates on what costumes pay homage and which are just culturally insensitive. The discourse is all the more pointed amid ...

I love everything about movies and have an eagle eye for the tiniest of details. Have a bad habit of making jokes in the most uncomfortable moments and I amplify the awkwardness with my dry humour. I ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sweta Kaushal writes about Bollywood and Indian films. Oct 18, 2025, 05:00am EDT A poster of the 2022 Kannada film 'Kantara'. A ...