The Inspiring Journey Of Rishab Shetty Whose Film 'Kantara' Has Left Bollywood Far Behind
Rishab Shetty whose Kannada movie Kantara is giving Bollywood a run for its money shares his inspiring struggle story. From selling water cans to working at hotel, he bares it all.
After the grand success of movies like Jai Bhim, Pushpa, KGF and RRR, several people asked if Bollywood is nearing its end. Once again, Kannada movie Kantara proved the same. Neither Ajay Devgn's Thank God and nor Akshay Kumar's Ram Setu could impress the audiences. The result was the two films were replaced with shows of the Rishab Shetty movie across the nation. What Bollywood is doing wrong?
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Rishab Shetty has made it clear that he doesn't want a remake of his film in Hindi. Furthermore, he thinks that too much western influence and consumption of Hollywood has deviated from Bollywood from seeing success. " This is my village¡¯s story, something I have seen since I was a kid, so I presented it. I always say ¡®more regional is more universal¡¯," he told Hindustan Times in an interview.
Indeed, Rishab Shetty, the man who has taken the entire nation by storm with Kantara - a film that not only he wrote and directed but also acted in, didn't have it easy.
The Inspiring journey of Rishab Shetty
When he found it difficult to make the ends meet, Shetty did odd jobs to survive, which included selling water cans and doing hotel work too. The 39-year-old opened up on his difficult journey that now stands inspiring to many.
In conversation with Pinkvilla, Rishab Shetty shared how he would take odd jobs to watch what he loved the most - movies.
"Right after the second year degree, I started doing odd jobs as I wouldn't have money for watching movies and couldn't ask for money all the time from dad right? Whatever jobs I got, I did all of them. In 2004, I started and in 2014, I got my first direction so in 10 years I had to survive," he said.
"I was in college back then. I started selling mineral water in the second year of my degree college. It was not that big of a struggle, because I hailed from a village. My father was an astrologer in Bangalore. So, I worked to earn money for college expenses, to watch a movie etc. I used to do that as a part-time job after college," he was quoted as saying by Bollywood Bubble.
"I supplied Mineral water. Sold tea powder. Did marketing for a solar company. I also had a hotel, it was a big disaster. After that, I was into construction, before entering into the mainstream film industry, that was my last work. And, when I was in Mumbai for some time, I had worked as a driver for a producer, as an office boy and I also worked as a production in charge," he added.
He always wanted to be an actor, he said.
Recently, Rishab Shetty and his leading lady Sapthami Gowda were in the National Capital to promote their mega-blockbuster Kantara at India Gate, reports PTI. Kantara Hindi market numbers have constantly been seeing a great jump in its box office collections with a total of 53.7 Cr till November 4. Other than registering phenomenal growth at the box office, Kantara also made its position at No. 1 in the list of India's Current Top 250 Films which was released by IMDb recently.
Kantara was released in the Kannada version and Hindi version on September 30 and October 14 respectively.
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Garima Satija leads the Entertainment vertical of Indiatimes. A storyteller at heart who enjoys the thrill of writing, she is sometimes found daydreaming about living the lives of movie characters. Also, she hates talking about herself in the third person.
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