Pradeep Ranganathan's Dude directed by Keerthiswaran is going great guns at the box office emerging as the Diwali winner.
Even as the makers are delighted with the film's performance at the box office, music maestro Ilayaraja gave a huge shock to the makers. He sent legal notices to the makers for over the copyright infringement for using his song in the film.
Ilayaraja has sued the makers for the unauthorized use of the needle drop ‘‘Karutha Machan’, which he composed for the movie Pudhu Nellu Pudhu Naathu (1991), which was directed by Bharathiraja.
It has to be seen how the makers will react to the developments. Ilayaraja earlier sued Mythri Movie Makers for using his songs in Ajith's Good Bad Ugly. This happens to be another shock from Ilayaraja to Mythri Movie Makers as they produced Dude.
Dude starred Mamitha Baiju as the female lead while Sai Abhyankar scored the music.