Dookudu storyline is some how similar to tragicomedy film Goodbye! Lenin
Mahesh babu refused to go shirtless for this film.
Dookudu was the first telugu film to gross $1 Million in the U.S.A thus making everyone evident, the craze of Mahesh Babu in the overseas market.
The movie was tentatively titled 'Power', but it was later officially renamed 'Dookudu' in July 2010.
The movie's reach went far and wide as it received, the largest worldwide opening for a Telugu film, inclusive of seventy nine screens in the USA.