India, Oct. 15 -- Debutant director Keerthiswaran's upcoming romantic drama, Dude, with Pradeep Ranganathan and Mamitha Baiju in lead roles, is gearing up for release ahead of Diwali on October 17. The film, which was made in Tamil and dubbed in Telugu, is surprisingly outperforming the original in advance sales in the US for the dubbed language.

A trade source confirmed that Dude has secured $ 59K in advance bookings in the US as of Wednesday morning, following the opening of bookings on Tuesday night. Surprisingly, of the total amount so far, $32K was from the Telugu version of the film, while the original Tamil version brought in $27K. It remains to be seen if the trend will change as the film continues to bring in collections ahead o...