The Kannada industry rose to super fame with the K.G.F franchise. The film is not just the costliest film in the history of Kannada film, but also one of the highest-grossing films in the country. The Kannada industry added another feather to its illustrious cap with the recent sensation Kantara.
Kantara talks about tribal rituals and how people in tribes follow special rituals in praying to god. The issue of how tribals are wrongly framed for Land Encroachment was shown beautifully. The mix of two points complemented by good direction skills made the film a sensation.
The peculiar rituals shown in the film are the USP of the film and people across the nation loved them. After the film was released many people are mimicking the sounds made by people who gives the voice of the gods.
Reacting to this, Director-hero Rishab Shetty urged everyone to not mimic the sounds as the sound has a cultural relevance in Karnataka, and micing the sounds will hurt the sentiments. He said that the word O used in the film is not random and it’s their culture.
He made a humble request to people to not use the dialogue randomly as the word carries rich cultural relevance and using the word randomly would hurt the sentiments of believers.
“Worshiping God is our culture. Kantara is a story of our soil. This folk song and movie should reach children. I saw after watching the movie, the audience outside the theatres were using the word O in different ways. Please don’t do this. It’s not like any other movie dialogue,” Rishab Shetty said.