{"id":114897,"date":"2025-10-11T05:34:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T05:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/114897\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T05:34:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T05:34:09","slug":"atlee-drove-over-two-and-a-half-hours-to-watch-kantara-chapter-1-in-amsterdam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/114897\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlee drove over two and a half hours to watch &#8216;Kantara: Chapter 1&#8217; in Amsterdam |"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/124469995.jpg\" alt=\"Kantara: Chapter 1': Atlee drove two and a half hours in Amsterdam to watch Rishab Shetty's film\" title=\"Filmmaker Atlee drove over two hours in Amsterdam to catch Rishab Shetty's 'Kantara: Chapter 1' on its opening day, expressing immense admiration. He believes Shetty's dual role as actor and director in the prequel is National Award-worthy, calling him an inspiration for his incredible execution. The film is a prequel to the 2022 hit 'Kantara'.\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Filmmaker Atlee drove over two hours in Amsterdam to catch Rishab Shetty&#8217;s &#8216;Kantara: Chapter 1&#8217; on its opening day, expressing immense admiration. He believes Shetty&#8217;s dual role as actor and director in the prequel is National Award-worthy, calling him an inspiration for his incredible execution. The film is a prequel to the 2022 hit &#8216;Kantara&#8217;. <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/rishab-shetty\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rishab Shetty<\/a>&#8216;s &#8216;Kantara: Chapter 1&#8217; is being celebrated across the nation and globally. The film is being praised by filmmakers, and fans are its spellbinding effect. Recently, &#8216;Jawan&#8217; director Atlee shared that he drove for over two and a half hours in Amsterdam just to watch the film on its opening day.<\/p>\n<p>Atlee&#8217;s admiration for Rishab Shetty&#8217;s filmmaking<\/p>\n<p>In a conversation with India Today, the &#8216;Theri&#8217; director shared that despite being abroad, he couldn&#8217;t resist catching Rishab Shetty&#8217;s much-awaited prequel. &#8220;I was in Amsterdam when the film was released. On day one, I watched it in theatres. I drove for about two and a half hours to the theatre to watch it. Immediately after, I called Rishab, who is a good friend of mine and someone I have great respect for,&#8221; Atlee said.<\/p>\n<p>Rishab Shetty Seeks Blessings At Siddhivinayak After &#8216;Kantara Chapter 1&#8217; Success<\/p>\n<p>A National Award-worthy performance<\/p>\n<p>He also shared that Rishab Shetty, for his performance in the film, in a dual role as an actor and director, deserves to win the <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/national-award\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">National Award<\/a>. Atlee lauded him for something unbelievable.Calling him a great inspiration for all filmmakers, he said, &#8220;After seeing the film, I can say he is a wonderful inspiration for all filmmakers. What he has pulled off is something that is not humanly possible. As a director, I can say it is incredibly difficult to execute such a film. But he&#8217;s also the actor in it, the hero and it&#8217;s not just a character to play. It takes a lot of rhythm within you to bring that out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>About &#8216;Kantara Chapter 1&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Kantara: Chapter 1&#8217; is a prequel to his 2022 superhit &#8216;Kantara&#8217;. The film includes Rukmini Vasanth, Gulshan Devaiah, and Jayaram in key roles.<\/p>\n<p>Atlee&#8217;s next<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Atlee, after &#8216;Jawan&#8217; success, is currently working on his next directorial venture, tentatively titled &#8216;AA22xA6&#8217;, featuring Allu Arjun in the lead. The film also stars Deepika Padukone and is said to star Mrunal Thakur, Janhvi Kapoor, and Rashmika Mandanna.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Filmmaker Atlee drove over two hours in Amsterdam to catch Rishab Shetty&#8217;s &#8216;Kantara: Chapter 1&#8217; on its opening&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[263],"tags":[4917,31869,18,117,19,17,53005,327,4413,53006],"class_list":["post-114897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-amsterdam","tag-atlee","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kantara-chapter-1","tag-movies","tag-national-award","tag-rishab-shetty"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}