• Rishab Shetty had sent Kangana Ranaut a video greeting in which he expressed his gratitude for her support of his film Kantara.
• Kangana couldn’t stop gushing about it online. She also wanted the movie to be India’s entry for the Oscars the following year.
• Kangana had taken to her Instagram Stories on Friday to pitch the film for the Oscars.

Rishab Shetty had sent Kangana Ranaut a video greeting in which he expressed his gratitude for her support of his film Kantara. The principal character of a Kambala champion was performed by Rishab in the Kannada film, which he also directed. Thursday after watching the movie, Kangana couldn’t stop gushing about it online. She also wanted the movie to be India’s entry for the Oscars the following year.

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Kantara receiving so much love from the public as well as Kangana made Rishabh Shetty happy. “As soon as I got her (Kangana) message, I shared it on my Instagram Stories and tagged her as well. It feels nice to get praise for a rooted, regional film. I always used to think more regional is more universal. This is the story of my village which I am presenting to the world. It is being loved across the globe. People are talking elements like about our beliefs, tradition, culture, ritual, way of life. As a writer, I feel happy,” he said in an interview in Hindi.

Man of the hour @shetty_rishab‘s adorable reaction to #KanganaRanaut‘s praise for his blockbuster #Kantara

Full interview coming soon 😇#KantaraTheLegend #Kantarafilm #kantaraprideofkarnataka #KantaraHindi #RishabhShetty pic.twitter.com/ipO1YUPqGS

— Aashu Mishra (@Aashu9) October 21, 2022

Kangana had taken to her Instagram Stories on Friday to pitch the film for the Oscars. She wrote, “I feel #Kantara should be India’s entry to Oscar next year, I know year is yet to end and there may be better films coming, but more than Oscar India needs the right representation globally… this land of mysteries and Mystics one can’t understand one can only embrace it …. India is like a miracle… if you try and make sense of it you will only get frustrated but if you surrender to the miracle you can also be one …. Kantara is an experiential reality which world must experience .. @rishabshetty77.”

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Achyuth Kumar, Pramod Shetty, and Sapthami Gowda are also featured in Kantara. On September 30, the movie was released in theatres; Telugu, Hindi, Tamil, and Malayalam versions followed two weeks later.