Bengaluru Kambala | 'We didn’t realise Kantara would be such a big success'

Bengaluru’s first Kambala is underway!

The competition is very well known in coastal Karnataka and the rest of the state but it reached global acclaim with the success of the film ‘Kantara’.

DH’s Anagha Deshpande met Mahesh Pujar, the man who trained Rishabh Shetty to be a buffalo jockey for the film, just ahead of the day’s races.

Here’s what he said about the training and the sport.