Overview

• Day-one pre-sales have crossed roughly ₹5–5.7 crore with around 1.7 lakh tickets sold in a little over 24 hours, largely driven by the Kannada version.
• Jr NTR endorsed the film at a packed Hyderabad pre-release event, calling the production effort ‘humanly impossible’ without Rishab Shetty.
• North India bookings opened with about 7,200 tickets sold in top Hindi chains by late Sunday, outpacing rival Sunny Sanskari Ki Tulsi Kumari, which logged roughly 4,500.
• Reports note exhibitor heartburn over requested show allocations for Kantara in multi-screen venues, while a social-media ‘boycott’ trend surfaced tied to unrelated release disputes.
• The period prequel is set for a pan-India launch across multiple languages with select IMAX shows, and CBFC directives include removing an obscene gesture and adding on-screen drug-use warnings.