Kannada film Kantara dominated the Tollywood box-office over the weekend. The film released on Saturday and it made huge money over the weekend considering the cast, crew, nativity, genre and low promotions. The film showed a clear domination on Megastar Chiranjeevi's God Father which was expected to have a decent second weekend. Kantara dominated across the Telugu states over God Father. Kantara is expected to end up as a decent hit all across the Telugu states.

The film features Rishab Shetty and Sapthami Gowda in the lead roles. Rishab Shetty directed the film and Hombale Films are the producers. The other new Telugu releases Boyfriend for Hire and Crazy Fellow fell flat and had a poor weekend across the Telugu states. A bunch of films like Ori Devuda, Ginna, Sardar and Prince are releasing during the Diwali weekend which happens to be a long weekend.