The Kannada film industry has been churning out some fine films of late. The list includes ‘KGF: Chapter 2’, ‘Vikrant Rona’, and ’777 Charlie’, to name a few. Another recent addition is the widely acclaimed action thriller movie ‘Kantara’, which was released in theatres on 30th September. The film has garnered widespread admiration from both critics and audiences.
Recently, ‘Kantara’ bagged the top spot on the coveted list of IMDb’s highest rated Indian movies of all time. Currently, the film holds a highly impressive user rating of 9.2/10 on IMDb.
Even now, it looks like ‘Kantara’ is in no mood to stop. The immensely buzzy film has now cracked the top 50 international narrative feature films list of 2022 on the Auckland-based movies-centric social platform Letterboxd. And in doing that, ‘Kantara’ (Rank 42) has even outranked Jordan Peele’s globally acclaimed sci-fi horror flick ‘Nope’ (Rank 45), amongst others.
The Letterboxd 2022 top 50 international films list has been topped by Peter Jackson’s ‘The Beatles: Get Back – The Rooftop Concert’ (Rank 1) followed by the widely acclaimed multiverse action flick ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ (Rank 2), the historical drama movie ‘Argentina 1985’ (Rank 3), and Tamil film ‘Kadaisi Vivasayi’ (Rank 4). Other films include Steven Spielberg’s ‘The Fabelmans’ (Rank 8), S.S. Rajamouli’s action extravaganza ‘RRR’ (Rank 11), Kamal Haasan’s explosive actioner ‘Vikram’ (Rank 34), and Brendan Fraser starrer ‘The Whale’ (Rank 32), etc.
Coming back to ‘Kantara’, the man vs nature centric film has been written and directed by and features actor-filmmaker Rishab Shetty. The film is set in the fictional village of Kantara and follows the story of a hot-headed henchman named Shiva (Rishab Shetty). When a forest officer Murali (Kishore) tries to stop the local superstitions in the village and save the forest from the residents, Shiva locks horns with Murali with support from his landlord (Achyuth Kumar). The highly rated Indian film has been narrated in three different timelines – 1890s, 1970s, and the 1990s period.