India, Oct. 26 -- Dude has been receiving resounding success at the box office, making Rs 100 crore within a week of release. Clearly the Diwali winner, the Pradeep Ranganathan and Mamitha Baiju-starrer, has been winning audience all over, especially the youth. Directed by debutant Keerthiswaran, the film, however, is also receiving its fair brickbat, especially after the director defended the placement of a sexist dialogue in the film.

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In one of the scenes from Dude, Pradeep Ranganathan's character Agan, utters a sexist dialogue to Mamitha Baiju's Kural when the lat...