It is possible to enable excel-like filtering in the Kendo UI MVC and Core wrappers with a couple of event handlers as demonstrated in this runnable how-to article:
I hope this is what you were looking for, in case it is not, feel free to get back to me.
Kind Regards,
Alex Hajigeorgieva
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