Kantara 2 box office collection Day 5: Rishab Shetty’s actioner earns 10 times more than Sunny Sanskari Ki Tulsi Kumari, 19x Dhanush’s Idli Kadai on first Monday

Kantara 2 Box Office Collection Day 5: Despite commencing its journey with mediocre advance bookings for its opening day, actor-director Rishab Shetty’s Kantara: Chapter 1 is currently soaring at the box office, thanks to positive responses from the audience. The film is poised to cross the Rs 400 crore mark globally any day now. Meanwhile, on its first Monday in theatres, the action drama minted more money than what Salman Khan’s Sikandar (2025) made on its release day (Rs 26 crore) in the domestic market.

On October 6, Kantara 2 recorded an India nett collection of Rs 31.25 crore, according to early estimates by industry tracker Sacnilk, taking the total to Rs 256.5 crore. Although this marked a 50.40 per cent dip in its daily earnings compared to Sunday (Rs 63 crore), it’s still far more than what movies like Chhaava (Rs 24 crore), Saiyaara (Rs 24 crore) and Coolie (Rs 12 crore) — which rank above Kantara 2 in the list of highest-grossing Indian films of 2025 — earned on their corresponding first Mondays in theatres. Interestingly, Kantara 2’s Monday collection is 10 times that of Varun Dhawan and Janhvi Kapoor’s Sunny Sanskari Ki Tulsi Kumari (Rs 3 crore) and 19 times that of Dhanush’s Idli Kadai (Rs 1.6 crore), which released alongside it.

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While Kantara’s original Kannada edition earned Rs 11.5 crore on Monday, the Hindi version contributed Rs 8.75 crore and the Telugu version Rs 5.5 crore. The Tamil and Malayalam editions, meanwhile, eked out Rs 2.75 crore each. During the day, the film recorded an overall occupancy of 72.70 per cent in the Kannada market. While the morning shows commenced with 41.91 per cent occupancy, the rate improved significantly as the day unfolded, reaching 76.52 per cent in the afternoon, 82.73 per cent in the evening and peaking at 89.64 per cent during the night screenings. The movie’s worldwide gross now stands at Rs 362.75 crore.

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A prequel to Rishab’s national sensation Kantara (2022), Kantara: Chapter 1 features Rukmini Vasanth, Jayaram and Gulshan Devaiah also in key roles. While the latest instalment is made on a massive budget of reportedly Rs 125 crore, the first movie was produced for approximately Rs 16 crore. However, it went on to become a pan-India blockbuster, grossing Rs 407.82 crore worldwide. Now, Kantara 2 is all set to surpass its predecessor’s lifetime collection in less than 10 days.