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Kantara (2022 film)

2022 Indian film by Rishab Shetty

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 16, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Kantara is a 2022 Indian Kannada-language action thriller film written and directed by Rishab Shetty, and produced by Vijay Kiragandur and Chaluve Gowda under Hombale Films. The film stars Rishab Shetty in a dual roles as Kaadubettu Shiva and Annappa, along with Sapthami Gowda, Kishore, and Achyuth Kumar.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Kantara (2022 film)” is 2022 Indian film by Rishab Shetty. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Kantara, film and Indian, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2022—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Kantara, film and Indian is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “2022 Indian film by Rishab Shetty” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 16, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2022.

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This entry incorporates text from “Kantara (2022 film)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.