Stree movie (2018 film)

Stree movie is a 2018 Bollywood Hindi-language Horror-comedy film which is directed by Amar Kaushik his first film director while the producer are Dinesh Vijan and Raj & D.K.

This film’s leading star cast are Rajkummar Rao, Shraddha Kapoor with Pankaj Tripathi, Aparshakti Khurana, and Abhishek Banerjee. The film story is based on the urban legend Nale Ba (which means- Come tomorrow) of Karnataka which is Modified as O Stree Kal Aana (Oh woman come tomorrow) in the film.

In late November 2017, Raj and DK talk to Rajkumar Rao to cast in the film as pre-production. Rajkumar started his preparation for his role as a tailor, He also learned to sew.

In December 2017, Shraddha Kapoor was confirmed as the film’s female lead actress. Raj and DK selected their First Assistant Director from the Go Goa Gone movie, Amar Kaushik to direct the film in January 2018. The film shooting started on 13 January 2018 in Chanderi. Film shooting also took place in Bhopal and Mumbai; the final shooting schedule was completed in May 2018. The film music composer are Sachin–Jigar while the lyricists are Vayu, Badshah, and Jigar Saraiya.

Stree movie released on 31 August 2018. The film reviews are highly positive and also appreciated the performances of Shraddha Kapoor, Rajkumar Rao, and others by critics and public

Making cost around 20 crores, the film collected 180.76 crores and declare a blockbuster by a trade analyst. The film was also nominated and won awards in various award ceremonies such as it get ten nominations at the 64th Filmfare Awards, mainly Best Film, Best Director for Amar Kaushik, Best Actor for Rajkumar Rao, and Best Supporting Actor for Pankaj Tripathi and Khurrana. Out of them won the Best Debut Director for Amar Kaushik. The film is the first part of Dinesh Vijan’s horror-comedy series followed by the release of Roohi (2021) and Bhediya (2022).

Stree movie Cast & Crew

• Director : Amar Kaushik
• Writer : Raj & D.K., Sumit Arora (Hindi Dialogues)
• Producer : Dinesh Vijan, Raj & D.K.
• Star Cast: Rajkummar Rao, Shraddha Kapoor, Pankaj Tripathi, Aparshakti Khurana, Abhishek Banerjee
• Cinematographer: Amalendu Chaudhary
• Editor : Hemanti Sarkar
• Music:
  • Songs: Sachin–Jigar
  • Score: Ketan Sodha
• Production Design: N. Madhusudan
• Art Direction: Akshita Garg, Sagar Mali
• Costume Design: Shaukeen Khan, Sheetal Sharma
• Production company: Maddock Films, D2R Films
• Distributor: AA Films, Jio Studios, PHARS Film
• Release dates: 30 August 2018 (United Arab Emirates)
• 31 August 2018 (India)
• Running time: 128 minutes
• Country: India
• Language: Hindi
• Budget: 14 crore INR
• Box office: est. 180.76 crore INR

Stree movie trailer

Stree movie Story:

This film story is based on the urban folk legend of “Nale Ba” in which an unknown woman abducts men at night when they are alone and only leaves their clothes behind, which become viral in Karnataka in the 1990s.

Chanderi is a small town in India, where Unknown an angry woman, “stree” stalks men and snatch them away during the four days of a religious festival every year, causing many disappearances of men over the years, causing fear in the town.

To protect the people from her outrage they write on the wall, “O Stree, come tomorrow” in Hindi (ओ स्त्री, कल आना) with bat’s blood on the entrances of all homes and men are advised are no to go alone after 10 pm during this religious festival season, and move in groups for safety – the same instructions women are usually given to follow for their own safety.

Vicky, a ladies’ tailor (Rajkummar Rao ) in Chanderi, sees a mysterious woman- an unnamed beautiful woman who only comes to the town during the annual religious festival season and falls in love with her at first sight.

She (Shraddha Kapoor) asks him to stitch her a lehenga. She frequently disappears, her shopping list such as a lizard’s tail, white cat’s fur, flowers of Datura, meat, brandy, and such like assume to be elements for black magic, and the fact that she is not seen by anybody except Vicky, makes his friend Bittu (Aparshakti Khurana) become doubtful, and he starts thinking that she could be Unknown Stree. After one of his friends, Janna, is kidnapped by Stree, Vicky also becomes suspicious of the woman as well. He follows her on and she disappears yet again.

They decide to find an option to save their friend and ask the town’s librarian Rudra Bhaiya (Pankaj Tripathi ) for help, who is also a paranologist. In Rudra’s bookshop, they found a partially torn book named “Chanderi Puran” in the library which is also Stree’s story, and an old fort that Vicky stated he has seen when he was on a date with the unknown woman.

Vicky, Bittu, and Rudra then go to the old fort, which Stree supposedly lives in, to find Janna. Stree moves away from Bittu and Rudra and it may attack Vicky but she does not, as she shows the feeling of love and respect in Vicky’s eyes. She is then moved away by the unknown woman’s spell.

She discloses later that she has been trying to beat ‘Stree’ for the last three years after losing close to her and that is why she comes to the town only during the festive season. This shows that she & Stree are two different persons. Stree releases Janna as requested by Vicky the same night, however, he starts having infrequent violent episodes. After other people go missing after their own Janna, under Stree’s control, erases the word “Tomorrow” (कल) from the protective phrases in everyone’s frontside of homes, leaving it as “O Stree, come”; (ओ स्त्री, आना) an invitation.

Vicky, Bittu, Rudra, and the woman try to meet the book’s author Shankar Shastri to find a solution to save the town, and he informs them that Stree had once been an extremely beautiful prostitute whom every man in town wanted. At last, she found a man who loved her and also married her, but on their wedding first night, Stree and her husband were killed by the town’s malicious men.

Afterward, Her spirit has been searching for her true love and also looks for revenge on the town with the goal to abduct every last man in it. Shastri tells them of a prediction pointing to a savior and Vicky surprisingly appears to have all the characteristics describing the savior.

Initially, Vicky believes that too until he recalls the inclusive feature of the savior, the son of a prostitute. His friends then show the secret of his being a prostitute’s son which anger Vicky and he leaves in hurry. In a drunk position, he confronts his father to which he silently agrees to upset Vicky further but then feels grateful for his father’s affection and efforts, and decides to save his town which accepted him and didn’t depress him.

The friends and the woman make a trap to kill Stree but Vicky realizes that Stree only desires love and respect and delays the plan. The woman then suggests Vicky cut her long braid – the source of her powers – so that she will become powerless. He does so, and Stree disappears. The woman leaves the chanderi the next day and Vicky offers her farewell, forgetting to ask her name all this time. On the bus, the woman merges Stree’s binding with her own hair and then disappears from the bus, showing that she is the witch who wanted Stree’s power through her braid.

Stree visits Chanderi again the next year and finds her own statue at the city entrance with a new slogan – “O Stree, protect us” (ओ स्त्री, रक्षा करना)- thus giving her respect, and she does not go to Chanderi.

Star Cast

• Rajkummar Rao as a Vikrant “Vicky” Parashar (ladies tailor)
• Shraddha Kapoor as an unknown woman
• Pankaj Tripathi as a Rudra, a paranologist
• Aparshakti Khurana as a Bittu, Vicky’s friend
• Abhishek Banerjee as a Janna, Vicky and Bittu’s friend who got possessed by Stree
• Flora Saini as a Stree, a spirit that abducts men during Chanderi’s festival night
• Vijay Raaz as a Shastri, the author of Chanderi Puran
• Aakash Dabhade as a Narendra
• Abhishek Singh Rajput as a Jaana’s friend
• Atul Srivastava as a Dashrath Parashar, Vicky’s father
• Ramkrishna Dhakad as a tailor’s assistant
• Sunita Rajwar as a Janna’s Mother, Vicky friend’s mother
• Ashish Chhipa as a A.C. Vastav
• Joy Badlani as a Bittu’s Father
• Mushtaq Khan as an Aam Sabha Party leader
• Nora Fatehi (Guest appearance in song “Kamariya”)
• Kriti Sanon (Guest appearance in the song “Aao Kabhi Haveli Pe”)

Pre-post Production

Pre-production

In November 2017, it was reported that Producer Dinesh Vijan had cast Rajkummar Rao to be the main actor for his upcoming film, based on the popular myth of Oh Stree Repu Ra means Oh woman, come tomorrow.

The film writers are Raj Nidimoru and Krishna D.K. Raj and DK further clarify the film genre is Horror-comedy and the film idea of a ghost returning back upon reading the sign is “absurd and funny.”

In December 2017, Shraddha Kapoor casting announced through her social media handle that she would be working with Rajkummar Rao and Maddock Films in their upcoming film.

In January 2018, it was shown that the title of the horror comedy would be Stree and Amar Kaushik would be the director of the film. As part of the preparation for the role, Rajkumar was given a sewing machine and a tailor would visit him every day for nearly 20 days so as to teach him the process of sewing clothes.

Film Shooting:

This film shooting started on 13 January 2018 in Chanderi, Madhya Pradesh, and the first schedule was completed on 30 January 2018.

The second shooting schedule took place in Bhopal in the month of March. According to producer Dinesh Vijan, the location in Bhopal was selected because of the mysterious stories associated with the place. After reaching the place, the local people informed the production team about the unexplained events that happen in the area and the safety precautions that they must follow.

Keeping in mind the advice given by the local people, a set of guidelines to be followed by everyone and precautions taken in all the rooms inside the fort. Shraddha Kapoor finished the film shooting half of her schedule within 10 days. The final shooting schedule was completed on 1 May 2018.

After completing the shooting, a promotional song shooting was done in Mumbai with Rajkummar Rao and Shraddha Kapoor in May 2018.

Stree movie Songs / Music

This film’s Music composer is Sachin–Jigar while the lyricist is Vayu except for one song “Aao Kabhi Haveli Pe” which is penned by Badshah and Jigar Saraiya.

The Background score composer is Ketan Sodha, who had previously worked on the Talvar movie, also add an extract of the theme song from Mission: Impossible (1996), with Indian instrumentation in a hilarious way.

After the film’s release, an extra song, “Dil Ka Darzi”, not added to the official album, was released by Maddock Films as a different song intention for Rajkumar Rao’s character, a ladies tailor, and was played in the film in the title credits. Penned by Vayu, it featured him as the vocalist along with Prakriti Kakar.

• “Milegi Milegi”…………………Mika Singh, Sachin–Jigar (2:33)
• “Kamariya”…………………………Aastha Gill, Divya Kumar, Sachin–Jigar (3:08)
• “Nazar Na Lag Jaaye”………..Ash King, Sachin–Jigar (3:26)
• “Aao Kabhi Haveli Pe”……..Badshah, Nikhita Gandhi, Sachin–Jigar (2:53)
• “Dil Ka Darzi”…………………….Vayu & Prakriti Kakar (2.28)

Milegi Milegi full Video Song:

• Singers : Mika Singh & Sachin-Jigar
• Music Composer : Sachin-Jigar
• Lyricist: VAYU
• Arranged & Programmer: Sachin-Jigar
• Music Production Head: Romil Ved

“Kamariya” full Video Song:

• Singers: Aastha Gill, Sachin Sanghvi, Jigar Saraiya, Divya Kumar
• Music Composer : Sachin-Jigar
• Lyricist: Vayu
• Arranged & Programmer: Sachin-Jigar
• Music Production Head: Romil Ved

“Nazar Na Lag Jaaye” full Video Song:

• Singers: Ash King & Sachin-Jigar
• Music Composer : Sachin-Jigar
• Lyricist: Vayu
• Arranged & Programmer: Sachin-Jigar
• Music Production Head: Romil Ved

“Aao Kabhi Haveli Pe” full Video Song:

• Singers: Badshah, Nikhita Gandhi, Sachin – Jigar
• Music Composer : Sachin-Jigar
• Lyricist: Vayu
• Arranged & Programmer: Sachin-Jigar
• Music Production Head: Romil Ved

Review of the Music Album:

From The Hindi, Vipin Nair gave the music album 2.5 stars from 5 and stated that the Music is entertaining though familiar.

Debarati S Sen from the Times of India appreciated the music and stated that it “appeals to the masses.”

Release:

This film trailer is released on 26 July 2018. It was released on 31st August 2018 worldwide. It was released with positive critic reviews and collected nearly 6.83cr INR in India, First weekend collected 31.26 cr and the first week collected nearly 60 cr and recover more than the film budget(30 cr).

Online release:

The film was now available to watch on Hotstar and JioCinema but was later on also available on Netflix after Jio Studios signed a deal with Netflix. The film is also available to watch on Prime Video.

Review of the film:

These film reviews are highly positive by critics and also appreciated by public reviews mainly good dialogues, frightening moments, performances, and storylines.

Film critic Anupama Chopra from Film Companion gave the film 3.5/5, writing that “With laughs and scares, the film delivers an important message.”

Rajeev Masand from News18 also gave 3.5 /5 and stated that “Stree is especially entertaining, packed with laugh-aloud moments and a cast that’s on top of their game. It’s one of the most original film stories this year, and I suggest that you watch the film for it.”

The Times of India film Rachit Gupta gave 3.5/ 5, writing that the superlative writing and dialogues, but felt the film was a little too long and had some ‘ambiguous ideas.’

Raja Sen from the Hindustan Times also appreciated the performance of the lead actor’s energy and collaborative efforts but criticized a rushed-feeling plot and stated that “The laughs are inconsistent, and the plotting feels sloppy and rushed. The film ideas are good, but the writers needed extra effort.”

Awards and Nomination of the film:

Stree movie is nominated for and won awards at the various awards ceremony, The list is:

Sequel and Prequel of Stree movie:

In June 2022, it was news that Shraddha Kapoor will be back to her role as Stree in the upcoming prequel of the film unanimously named as a Munjha.

In October 2018, director Amar Kaushik stated that he is planning a sequel to the film. But according to the news, the original writer Raj and D.K. will not be part of it.

In February 2022, actor Rajkumar Rao confirmed that the sequel to Stree is planned.

Stree movie Box Office Collection:

Stree film making costs around 30 cr INR, Collected 166 cr in India and worldwide 180 cr and Box office India declared Blockbuster.