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Rishab Shetty’s Kantara Chapter 1 is roaring at the box office and spitting fiery numbers with its occupancy and ticket sales on the opening day. The Kannada film has surpassed the numbers of its predecessors by a huge margin already, when it comes to the occupancy in the morning shows!
354% Higher Occupancy Than Its Predecessor!
The prequel has registered an occupancy that is 354% higher than Kantara‘s day 1 occupancy! Rishab Shetty’s film registered an occupancy of 16.1% for the morning shows. Initially, the previous film was released only in Kannada and was dubbed in other languages after two weeks.
Kantara Chapter 1 Box Office Day 1 Occupancy
On the opening day, Thursday, October 2, Kantara Chapter 1 registered an occupancy of 73.5% in the morning shows with its Kannada version only! The afternoon shows were a riot with 96.14% occupancy. The evening and night shows will be giant with better numbers!
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Rishab Shetty Is Rioting With Ticket Sales
Rishab Shetty‘s film is roaring with its ticket sales on BookMyShow. The overall sales of the film registered 696K sold tickets from 6 AM to 6 PM on the opening day. This is almost 58K sold tickets every single hour on an average.
At one point the peak ticket sales of Kantara Chapter 1 on BMS was recorded at 76K sold tickets which is second best peak of the year 2025 settling below L2: Empuraan, which registered a ticket sale of almost 90+K in a single hour!
It would be interesting to see if the ticket sales of the film hits 1 million on the opening day, challenging some of the biggest films of Indian cinema on BookMyShow. By 6 PM, the film has already earned 43 crore as per Sacnilk‘s estimates.
Note: Box office numbers are based on estimates and various sources. Numbers have not been independently verified by Koimoi.
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