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‘Dude’ Advance Sales Jump Past 95,000 Tickets in India Ahead of Oct. 17 Release

The Tamil version currently leads pre-sales across India.

Mamitha Baiju and Pradeep Ranganathan in a still from their upcoming film Dude.
Mamitha Baiju and Pradeep Ranganathan headline the romantic drama titled Dude.

Overview

  • By 2 pm IST on Oct. 16, Indian day-one pre-sales reached over 95,000 tickets from about 2,300 shows, totaling roughly ₹1.58 crore gross according to Koimoi.
  • The latest split shows the Tamil version at more than 87,000 tickets (about ₹1.41 crore) and the Telugu version at just over 9,000 tickets (about ₹17 lakh).
  • Pre-sales recorded a sharp rise from the prior snapshot of 12,100 tickets and ~₹19 lakh as of Oct. 15, a jump Koimoi pegs at about 732%.
  • In the US, early bookings stood at $59,000 as of Wednesday morning, with the Telugu dub at $32,000 and the Tamil original at $27,000, per a trade source cited by Hindustan Times.
  • The Pradeep Ranganathan–Mamitha Baiju film opens Oct. 17 and will contend with titles including Bison: Kaalamaadan and Diesel in Tamil, and Telusu Kada, K Ramp, and Mithra Mandali in Telugu, with box-office projections framed as expectations based on the actor’s recent hits.