Shiva's girlfriend, Leela, is a newly recruited forest guard in Murali's staff. Murali and his staff start erecting a fence along the earmarked forest reserve. Shiva is backed by his patron and the village's landlord, Devendra Suttooru, who is the king's successor in the present day. He is challenged by Shiva, a Kambala athlete from Kaadubettu. In 1990, Muralidhar is a forest officer tasked with converting that land into a forest reserve. The king's successors eventually dies a mysterious death a few months later, vomiting blood, on the steps of the court, as warned by Guliga. The performer(Panjurli in his body) also warns the king's successor of a fateful ending when he threatens to take a legal action to reclaim land. He raises the doubt on performer's possession by Panjurli, to which the performer replies he would vanish in the forest if he is indeed possessed by Guliga and he does vanish, implying he was indeed possessed by Panjurli. In 1970, the king's successor asks the Bhoota Kola performer(Shiva's father), who is supposedly possessed by Panjurli, to make the locals handover the land to him, to which the performer denies. He warns the king that his family and successors should keep the word and not reclaim the land which will incur the wrath of Panjurli's companion, the Guliga Daiva. In 1847, a king agrees with Panjurli Daiva/Bhoota (a local deity worshipped in its animist form by the people of Udupi and Dakshina Kannada, which are parts of Karnataka and Kasargod district of Kerala) to give a portion of his forest land to the locals in exchange for peace and happiness granted by a shaman who is supposedly possessed by Daiva. The film was a huge commercial success and emerged as the second highest-grossing Kannada film of all time, as well as the second highest-grossing Kannada film of 2022. Kantara was released on 30 September 2022 and received acclaim from critics, who praised the cast performances (particularly those of Shetty and Kishore), direction, writing, production design, cinematography, proper showcasing of the Bhoota Kola, action sequences, editing, soundtrack, and musical score. The production design was handled by debutant, Dharani Gange Putra. Ajaneesh Loknath scoring music for the film and the action sequences were choreographed by the action director Vikram More. The cinematography was handled by Arvind S. Set and filmed in Keradi in coastal Karnataka, principal photography began in August 2021. The film stars Shetty as a Kambala champion who is at loggerheads with an upright DRFO officer, Murali (played by Kishore). "Mystical Forest") is a 2022 Indian Kannada-language action thriller film written and directed by Rishab Shetty, and produced by Vijay Kiragandur, under Hombale Films.
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