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The film was released on September 23, 2011[1] with the largest worldwide opening for a Telugu film. The film was released among seventy nine screens in the USA, the Los Angeles Times quoted it as The biggest hit you've never heard of.[6][7][8] In the rest of north, east and west India, it opened up in 21 cities.[9] The film set a box office record by collecting a gross of more than INR1 billion at the time.[3] The film has won seven Andhra Pradesh State Nandi Awards, including the Best Popular Feature Film and Best Actor.[10] The film was dubbed into Tamil as Athiradi Vettai, and released on April 12, 2013.[11][12] The film was also dubbed in Hindi as The Real Tiger and released on February 11, 2012[13] and in Malayalam as Choodan which was released on May 17, 2013.[1 Box office The film had the largest opening for a Telugu film, and collected a share of INR10.11 crores, and a gross of INR12.58 crores, on the first day of its release.[37] It collected a share of INR35.01 crores and grossed INR50.07 crores in its first week.[38] After two weeks, it grossed INR70 crores[39] and in 47 days, it grossed INR100 crores.[40] The movie crossed the $1 million mark in the USA, and grossed INR1.5 crores in two days, in UK, Australia, Dubai and Canada.[41] The film is the biggest Telugu hit in Chennai.[42] The film also completed 50 days in 312 centres.[43] Some reports say that the movie has a share of about INR64.97 crores in the first 8 weeks.[44] This is the only Telugu Film to feature in Google's list of "Top 10 Most searched films in India" in the year 2011, ranked at the 9th place in the list.[ Remakes Dookudu was remade into Bengali by director Raja Chanda as Challenge 2. The film has Bengali actors Dev and Pooja Bose in lead roles. Discussions are going on to remake this film in Kannada with Puneeth Rajkumar in the lead role by the same production house 14 Reels Entertainment.[6 Release The film was released on September 23, 2011.[1] The film had the second largest worldwide opening for a Telugu film, releasing globally in 1,600 screens,[16] including 71 screens in Hyderabad.[17] It also shattered records by releasing in 15 screens in Chennai and 79 theaters in the United States, the highest ever for a Telugu film in both the cases.[18][19] In the rest of north, east and west India, it opened up in 21 cities.[9] Overseas, it released in 21 countries.[9] The film became the first Telugu project to release in Botswana and was opened in a single screen with one show by the Telugu Association of Botswana.[20] Further, it was released in Netherlands, Germany, South Africa, Dubai and Finland[9] the first for a Telugu film, and in regular overseas markets like Singapore, Malaysia and UK, making it the biggest overseas release for a Telugu film as well.[21] The producers of the film approached the high court for a John Doe order to prevent piracy of the film.[22] |
