Kantara Movie Real Story

Karnataka movie Kantara is a 2020 Indian Kannada-language period drama film, based on the real story of an old tribal family living in the countryside of Karnataka state. The movie follows the journey of a young man named Kantara who embarks on an adventure to preserve his family's legacy and protect their traditions.

It showcases the struggles of his family as they face economic hardship and social discrimination due to their caste and class. With strong performances from its cast, along with spectacular visuals, Kantara successfully captures the essence of rural life in southern India.

Panjurli and Gulia real god story

The story of the movie Kantara revolves around the worship of two Daivas - Panjurli and Gulia. The story of Panjurli daiva comes from an oral tradition. According to this story, a wild boar had died in the pleasure garden of Shiva and Parvati, and its young one was taken by Parvati as her child. but that young boar grows up to be very destructive to the point that Lord Shiva decides to kill it.

However, given how many goddesses Parvati loved that boar, Lord Shiva banishes the wild boar to earth and assigns it to protect the people and receive tributes from them. Hence, the wild boar ends up becoming a bhuta or a daiva and was known as Panjurli.

List of Daivas

1 Koragajja

2 Panjurli

3 Bobbarya

4 Kalkuda and Kallurti

5 Guliga

6 Koṭi Cennayya

Buta Kola festival in Karnataka

Buta Kola also referred to as daiva kola or nema, is a shamanistic ritual dance performance prevalent among the Hindus of Tulu Nadu and Kasargod in northern Kerala, India. The dance is highly stylized and performed as part of 'Bhootaradhana' or worship of the local deities worshipped by the Tulu speaking population. It has influenced Yakshagana folk theatre. Buta kola is closely related to Theyyam of North Malabar region.

The Bhuta worship of South Canara is of four kinds, kola, bandi, nema, and agelu-tambila.

kola: Demi god dancing, is offered to the Bhutas in the sthana of the village believed that which they are supposed to reside.

Bandi: Bandi is the same as kola, with the addition of dragging about a chariot, on which the one who is representing the Bhuta is seated; most often, he is from the nalke, pambada or ajala communities.

Nema: Nema is a private ceremony in honour of the Bhutas, held in the house of anyone who is so inclined. It is performed once in every year, two, ten, fifteen, or twenty years by well-to-do families.

Agelu-tambila: is a kind of worship offered only to the family people, wherein rice, dishes, meat, alcohol are served on plantain leaves and offered to spirits, deities, departed forefathers annually or once wishes are completed.

Secular function

The secular function of the kola or nema has been described as a "sacred court of justice" where traditional (feudal) moral ideals are brought to bear on difficult real-life situations.

Buta kolas and daiva nemas are assemblies of the entire village. Thus they become an occasion to resolve conflicts in the village. The royal daiva (rajan-daiva) rules over a former small kingdom or large feudal estate.

He or she is mostly the family deity of rich land-owning patrons of the Baṇṭ caste whose position and power they reflect, confirm and renew. The relationship between the butas, manor heads, and the villagers forms a transactional network which reaffirms the caste hierarchy and power relations in a village.

The duty assigned to every category is differential but based on mutuality. The manor head by staging the nema seeks to symbolically proclaim himself to be the natural leader of the community.