From Selling Water Bottles to Box Office Glory: Rishab Shetty’s Journey to ₹655 Crore Success
From selling water bottles to blockbuster filmmaker, Rishab Shetty’s Kantara: Chapter 1 crosses ₹655 crore worldwide, net worth now ₹90 crore.
Rishab Shetty on the sets of Kantara: Chapter 1, whose box office collection has crossed ₹655 crore, marking a phenomenal rise from humble beginnings.
Rishab Shetty's life seems to be nothing less than a movie plot as he rises from a very basic background to the apex of super-stardom. Selling water bottles and doing odd jobs just to get by, Shetty lifts his net worth to approximately ₹90 crore, all this due to the phenomenal success of Kantara: Chapter 1.
Sensational at the Box Office
The current flick of Rishab Shetty, Kantara: Chapter 1, has broken all barriers at the Box Office, exceeding the ₹600 crore worldwide gross and is close to ₹700 crore. The film has received accolades for its captivating narration, wonderful directing, and beautiful cultural presentation, thus establishing Shetty as a young and powerful actor among Indian cinema.
Childhood and Kin
Rishab Shetty, whose birth date was 7th July 1983, hails from Kundapura, which is the Udupi district of Karnataka, and he was quirkily raised in the middle of the cultural backdrop of coastal Karnataka. He got married to Pragathi Shetty in 2017 and the couple has been rewarded with two children, a son who is named Ranvit (2019) and a daughter who is named Radhya (2022).
Difficulties and Aspiration
Shetty, before gaining recognition, took a series of odd jobs—besides selling tea powder, he was at times, a water bottles seller, solar power products marketing executive, etc.—and all this while he still strived for his cinematic dreams. After making a shift to Mumbai, his first job was that of an office boy in a production company, later he worked as a driver for a producer in Andheri West, all this while grasping the ways of the film industry.
Performance at the Box Office
Kantara: Chapter 1 ruled over the theaters as it did extremely well collecting ₹146 crore in just its second weekend. The film's total worldwide gross at the end of the 11th day stood at ₹655 crore, and by the end of the 12th, it was around ₹675 crore according to reports from the Hindustan Times.
Impact on Culture
Rishab Shetty was deeply affected by his lifelong connection to Yakshagana, the traditional folk theater of coastal Karnataka. The cultural art form that was the basis of the lively portrayal of Daiva Kola rituals in Kantara, thus, acted like a double-edged sword, giving the film both richness and authenticity at the same time.
About Kantara: Chapter 1
Kantara: Chapter 1 is the beginning of the story of the original Kantara, which earned a whopping ₹400 crore with a budget of just ₹15 crores. The release of the film was on October 2, 2025, worldwide. It is offered in various languages such as Kannada, Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam, Tamil, Bengali, and English, thereby serving the viewers not only in India but also in other parts of the world.
