The long-awaited and much-hyped Kannada cinema movie Kotigobba 3 starring Sudeep Sanjeev, is hitting theatres from today, is an action thriller, and a sequel to earlier Kotigobba 2 which remained successful at the box office, furthermore Sudeep announced a sequel of it, Kotigobba 3, its shooting started in October 2018 and ended in Jan 2020, it took so late to complete owing to the start-stop shooting of the film.
Madonna Sebastian who mostly works in Tamil and Malayalam movies, from Kotigobba 3 she will mark her debut in the Kannada industry as well. It is a shiva Karthika directorial movie, bankrolled by Soorappa Babu, and Editing and Cinematography is done by Horan Ivanovic, and Shekhar Chandur respectively.
This Rs 70 crores budget movie has already collected INR 27 crores from its digital, satellite, and Hindi dubbing rights. Early estimates are, the film to collect Rs 5 crores+ on its opening day in the southern region, as it is already a hit franchise, and following the Sudeep Sanjeev mass popularity will also pull some crowd to theatres. It would earn INR 7-7.5 crores at the box office worldwide.
Dussehra release Kotigobba 3 will face competition with two Tamil movies Doctor which is already getting a massive response at the box office, Aranmanai 3 has been released on 14th Oct, faced a clash also with the Malayalam movie Maha Samudram starring Siddharth & Hollywood movie Venom starring Tom Hardy. Only time will tell who will win this battle, We’ll update you when the final reports come.
All of these movies are already making a buzz and the respective makers have placed the bidding at the right time, it can benefit the film’s business as it is the festive season, Theatres are reopening in Kerala, in Andhra Pradesh Govt. allows the theatres to open with 100% occupancy and the Telangana state has already been allowing it since June.
Sudeep is playing multi-character in the film as Satya, Shiva, and Ghost along with Madonna Sebastian is playing lead actress opposite Sudeep. Shraddha Das, Aftab Shivdasani, P. Ravi Shankar also featuring in the movie.