Wanna know why Kannada cinema has broken the regional barriers and set new box office records? All thanks to the beautiful stories, mind-blowing visuals, and interesting performances, Kannada movies have dominated the box office in recent years. Know here which Kannada movies have created their place in Indian cinema’s history with its highest-grossing box office collections.
Please note that the below films and their box office collections and budgets are approximate, gross, and subject to change over a period of time.
| Rank | Movie Name | Budget | Box office collection |
| 1. | KGF: Chapter 2 | 100 cr | 1250 crore |
| 2. | Kantara | 16 cr | 450 crore |
| 3. | KGF: Chapter 1 | 80 cr | 250 crore |
| 4. | Vikrant Rona | 95 cr | 210 crore |
| 5. | James | 70 cr | 151 crore |
| 6. | 777 Charlie | 20 cr | 105 crore |
| 7. | Kaatera | 45 cr | 100 crore |
| 8. | Raajakumara | 20 cr | 75 crore |
| 9. | Mungaru Male | 70 lakh | 70 crore |
| 10. | The Villain | 45 cr | 60 crore |
1) KGF: Chapter 2
Cast: Yash, Sanjay Dutt, Raveena Tandon, Srinidhi Shetty, Prakash Raj, Achyuth Kumar, Rao Ramesh, Vasishta N. Simha, Ayyappa P. Sharma, Archana Jois, Saran Shakti, Easwari Rao, John Kokken, T. S. Nagabharana and Malavika Avinash.
KGF follows the after-events of how Rocky rose to prominence with his gold mining business and fought against the top officials to leave a legacy behind.
2) Kantara
Cast: Rishab Shetty, Kishore
A young tribal is on a journey to get justice and he does this by following the path shown to him by ancestors. The events unfold in the backdrop when greed overtakes and leads to betrayal and murder.
3) KGF: Chapter 1
Cast: Yash, Srinidhi Shetty, Vasishta N. Simha, Ramachandra Raju, Archana Jois, Anant Nag, Achyuth Kumar, Malavika Avinash, T. S. Nagabharana and B. Suresha.
The film follows the story of Rocky who is born to a poor unaderage woman Shanti. Rocky promises his dying mother that he will become the wealthiest person and that’s how he begins to work in a gold smuggling business.
4) Vikrant Rona
Cast: Sudeepa, Milana Nagaraj, Nirup Bhandari, Neetha Ashok, and Jacqueline Fernandez
The film is a story about Inspector Vikrant Rona, who reaches a remote village in the middle of a tropical rainforest. However, things take a turn as he starts seeing a series of unexplainable events that are related to the supernatural.
5) James
Cast: R. Sarathkumar, Srikanth, Priya Anand, Anu Prabhakar, Madhusudhan Rao, Mukesh Rishi, Adithya Menon, Avinash, Sadhu Kokila, Chikkanna and John Kokken
Vijay is entangled in a dangerous situation when unknown terrorists who are sent by Joseph kill Jayadev. Not only that, Joseph got to know from an informer that Vijay was the reason behind the deaths of his brothers. How will Vijay fight with his enemies?
6) 777 Charlie
Cast: Charlie, a Labrador dog in the title role, and Rakshit Shetty, Sangeetha Sringeri, Raj B. Shetty, Danish Sait, Bobby Simha and Aniruddh Roy.
What happens when you see the bonding between a dog and a human? Well, things feel lovely and that’s what 777 Charlie narrates through its story of a lonely factory worker with a stray Labrador dog.
7) Kaatera
Cast: Darshan, Aradhana Ram, Jagapathi Babu, Kumar Govind, Vinod Kumar Alwa, Danish Akhtar Saifi and Shruti.
Kaatera works as a blacksmith and lives in a village with his sister. When Kaatera finds his sister killed by Devaraya, he hits him back and gets imprisoned. What prompted Devaraya to do such an act? Watch the film to know more.
8) Raajakumara
Cast: Puneeth Rajkumar, Priya Anand. R. Sarathkumar, Ananth Nag, Prakash Raj, Chikkanna, Sadhu Kokila, Achyuth Kumar and Avinash
The film follows the story of Siddharth who believes in helping people and uplifting them. How he leaves Australia and starts living in India to help the old people forms the main part of the story.
9) Mungaru Male
Cast: Ganesh, Pooja Gandhi and Anant Nag
Preetham falls in love with Nandhini but faces heartbreak when he comes to know that her marriage is already fixed. Things change for the good when Nandhini challenges Preetham to win her heart.
10) The Villain (2018 film)
Cast: Sudeepa and Shiva Rajkumar, Amy Jackson, Saranya Ponvannan, Srikanth and Mithun Chakraborty.
Ramu, a common man has to unite his brother, Rama, with their mother. But Rama is not the same innocent guy and now has turned into Ravana, a mafia don who poses challenges to Ramu.
