Daring & Dashing

Dookudu

Name: Dookudu
Genre: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Released: 2011-09-23
Duration: 174 min
Cast: Mahesh Babu, Samantha Ruth Prabhu, Prakash Raj, Sonu Sood, Brahmanandam

Tollywood20112h 54mTeluguTop 21% of Tollywood budgets

68Standing

93rd of 443 in Tollywood

Reported gross: 81
Return on budget: 55
Audience rating: 84
Momentum: 37

Out-grossed 81% of Tollywood releases with reported figures ($12M).
Returned 1.6× its budget, against an industry median of 1.5×.
Momentum in the 37th percentile.
Audience rating 6.8 from 57 votes, the 84th percentile.

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Cost: $7M
Took: $12M

Against a Tollywood median of 1.5×, so this one returned 1.1 times what a typical release there does.

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The picture

To protect his father recovering from a coma, a relentless cop must pose as the political leader his father always envisioned while hunting the men who tried to kill him.

Released: 23 September 2011
Runtime: 2h 54m
Language: Telugu
Industry: Tollywood

Top billedAll 23 credits

Mahesh BabuACP G. Ajay Kumar
Samantha Ruth PrabhuPrashanthi
Prakash RajShankar Narayana
Sonu SoodNayak
BrahmanandamPadmasri
M. S. NarayanaBokka Venkata Rao

Made by

Director: Sreenu Vaitla
Writer: Gopi Mohan, Kona Venkat
Director of Photography: K. V. Guhan, Prasad Murella
Producer: Gopichand Achanta, Anil Sunkara, Ram Achanta

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ActionComedyThriller

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