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Kantara: Chapter 1 set for English release
The New Indian Express Chennai
|October 23, 2025
KANTARA: Chapter 1, Rishab Shetty’s prequel to the 2022 blockbuster Kantara, will have its English-language release on October 31. Hombale Films announced the news as the film nears the = 800 crore milestone globally.
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The Kannada film, which was also dubbed in Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, and Malayalam, originally hit theatres on October 2.
This story is from the October 23, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Chennai.
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