India, Oct. 24 -- The latest Tamil film Dude, starring Pradeep Ranganathan and Mamitha Baiju, has been wooing audiences, especially youngsters, and minting profits at the box office. Not just in Tamil Nadu, the young rom-com film has caught the attention of audiences in Kerala too. But as Dude's popularity increases by the day, Malayali netizens have found a hilarious link to a 2002 Dileep film, Kalyanaraman, which they claim has the 'story' for the 2025 Tamil film in a nutshell. Wondering how? Let's take a look.

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Kalyanaraman is a 2002 Malayalam comedy film, which starred actors Dileep and Navya Nair, along with an ensemble cast with th...