Many family and multi-starrer films were released in the 90s, but there were some films which, once settled in people’s minds, never came out again. One such film was ‘Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham’, in which the dignity of the family, love crossing the boundaries of rich and poor and the confluence of three generations were shown. Today the film has completed 24 years, actress Kajol and film director Karan Johar have expressed happiness about it on social media.

Kajol wrote on her Instagram – ‘My message to all Anjalis, keep speaking openly and proudly! Rahul is somewhere, but perhaps he is late due to traffic. While sharing some scenes of the film, Karan Johar wrote – ‘Even after so many years, it continues to make everyone feel the power of family, love, a lot of happiness and a little sadness’. This film introduced Shahrukh Khan and Kajol as an iconic pair, in which Kajol’s bubbly style won the hearts of the fans the most.

The film is close to Karan Johar’s heart.
This film is very close to the heart for Karan Johar also. Competing with director and producer Sooraj Barjatya, he gave a big and hit family film to Hindi cinema. Earlier, Sooraj Barjatya was known for family and romance films. Karan Johar also signed the star cast of the film in a single day. The producer signed 6 big stars of the film in one day.

Starcast was signed in a single day
Karan Johar had revealed in an interview that he wanted to include all the big stars in the film. He said that one day he first reached Shahrukh Khan’s house with the script, where he said ‘yes’ to the film without even reading the script. After which Kajol said ‘yes’, then he reached Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya’s house and narrated the story and then both of them said ‘yes’ for the film.

Finally I reached Hrithik Roshan and Kareena Kapoor’s house. The title track of the film was also shot with great difficulty because singer Lata Mangeshkar had stopped singing at that time, but on the insistence of music composer Lalit Pandit, she recorded the first title track of the film.

On 30 September 2022, there was magic at the Indian box office and this magic was of actor Rishabh Shetty. Rishabh Shetty brought a film that had not known how many big films dashed. The name of the film is ‘Kantara’. The film was made in a budget of 16 crores and when it was released, no one thought that something like this was going to happen. In one stroke, he reached the South Superstar category. The audience was mad to watch the film.

Kantara’s box office collection
According to Koimoi’s report, the lifetime collection of Kantara at the domestic box office was 309.64 crores. There was 363.82 crore gross collection. The film earned overseas 44 crores. This was an all time blockbuster film.

The film had collected 162.09 crores in Kannada, 84.77 crore in Hindi, 42.38 crores in Telugu, 7.29 crore in Tamil and 13.11 crores in Malayalam. The film proved to be an all time blockbuster in Kannada and blockbast in Hindi and Telugu, Tamil and Malayalam.

The film profited 1831.25 percent. The rights of the Hindi version of the film were sold for 7.5 crores and the film gave a strong profit of 981.33 percent.

KGF: Chapter 2 came in April 2022 before Kantara, which was the highest profit giving film after Kovid. The film gave a profit of 759 percent. But when Kantara came, all the records were left. Kantara 1’s digital rights were sold for Rs 125 crore for Amazon Prime.

Please tell that Rishabh Shetty was in the lead role in the film. He only directed it. The film featured Saptami Gowda, Achueth Kumar, Pramod Shetty, Suchan Shetty and Kishore Kumar.

Trailer of Kantara 2 launched

Kantara was such a big success that preparations for the second part of the film started. Now the trailer of the second part of the film is going to be released on 22 September 2025. The first part of the film where it was made in a budget of only 16 crores. Now there are reports that the budget for the second part has been increased by Rs 125 crore. Hrithik Roshan, the trailer of the Hindi version of the film, is going to launch.

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