Dookudu landed on American box-office radar in 2011, but the milestone had been years in the making: migration, better distribution, online ticketing and theatres learning that the Telugu diaspora was a real territory.
Mahesh Babu already had hits. Pokiri turned his cool restraint into a new mass-hero template, broke Telugu box-office records and created expectations he later said left him unsure what to do next.
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