Over time, South Indian cinema has seen some stylish bearded looks on screen, be it in Allu Arjun’s Pushpa, or Nivin Pauly’s Premam. The looks were so iconic that they are a fanfare themselves.
Recently, filmmaker Anand Gandhi slammed Shetty’s Kantara to be a celebration of masculinity and parochialism while drawing a comparison with his Tumbbad. Soon after the internet was flooded with tweets on Kantara vs Tumbbad debate. While some felt the two films deserve no comparison, others picked their favourites.