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The Rajkummar Rao and Shraddha Kapoor-led horror-comedy Stree 2 is showing remarkable hold in its fourth week. The Amar Kaushik directorial drama continues with its glorious trend at the box office. The Maddock movie has seen a drop of 10% from its fourth Monday and added Rs 3 crore to the final tally.
With an ensemble cast that included Pankaj Tripathi, Abhishek Bannerji, Aparshakti Khurrana, Tammannah Bhatia, and Akshay Kumar (cameo) beside Raj and Shraddha, Stree 2 has surpassed all expectations and became a big potboiler for every stakeholder. The movie clocked Rs 3 crore on its 27th day of release and that’s not a usual case for mid-budget movies, that too with no star face. The total cume of Stree 2 has reached Rs 528.15 crore net at the domestic box office in 27 days of its phenomenal theatrical run.
The movie has benefited from the long free run due to the lack of new releases. It will keep rolling the numbers at least for the next three weeks until Devara arrives and who knows if it can perform beyond that too.
The horror-comedy bankrolled by Dinesh Vijan was mounted on a mid-budget which made it the most profitable venture among all the other Rs 500 crore movies – Jawan, Pathaan, Animal, Gadar 2, and Baahubali 2. Reportedly, the movie has recorded the highest ROI leaving behind all the other biggies.
Stree 2 aims to top Jawan’s lifetime Hindi net collection (Rs 555.50 crore) by the end of its theatrical run and emerge as the #1 film at the Hindi box office.
The movie is also performing extremely well in foreign markets. Overall, its lifetime box office collection globally is expected to be Rs 800 crore or more.
Day
India Net Collections
Extended Week 1 with previews
Rs 292 crore
Week 2
Rs 139.75 crore
Week 3
Rs 66.75 crore
4th Weekend
Rs 23.50 crore
4th Monday
Rs 3.15 crore
4th Tuesday
Rs 3 crore
Total
Rs 528.15 crore net in 27 days in India
Stree 2 continues from where Stree ends. The slogans on the walls of Chanderi change from ‘O Stree Kal Aana’ (Oh woman, come tomorrow) to ‘O Stree Raksha Karna’ (Oh woman, please protect us). This time around, there is a new ghost in the form of Sar-Kata (The one with a cut head), who abducts women with modern thoughts and beliefs. Vicky (Rajkummar Rao) and his friends come together to find and fight the headless ghost who holds even more power than Stree. To help Vicky and his friends out, there’s a woman (Shraddha Kapoor) who Vicky really loves.
What is the truth about the woman that Vicky really loves? Will Vicky, along with his gang, be able to defeat Sar-Kata? What does the future hold for the people of Chanderi? Watch Stree 2 to find out.
Stree 2 plays at a theatre near you, now. The movie’s tickets can be booked online or from the box office. Have you watched the horror comedy yet?
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Academy Award-winning actress Ariana DeBose turns chef in the upcoming high-stakes kitchen drama, which gives off The Bear vibes but with a spooky twist. The story revolves around an ambitious chef (DeBose) who leaves her job to become head chef at her own restaurant in an upstate rural estate.
However, something haunting about the estate messes with the head chef’s mind and makes her see bizarre things, like worms crawling out of a dish. From popping anti-anxiety pills to seeing creepy hallucinations, DeBose’s character seems to be losing her mind. Towards the end of the trailer, she apparently turns into a wild being, feeding off of other people’s plates like a savage.
Euphoria actress Barbie Ferreira and Succession’s Arian Moayed also star in the film. At one point, Ferreira’s character remarks how she’s never seen local greens like the one picked from the garden of the ‘haunted’ estate. Someone also hints at a horror past of the estate’s former owner, referred to as a “witch lady story.”
“I wouldn’t eat anything from her garden,” someone says in the trailer, hinting at the spooky past of the place. Will the chef survive or succumb to the terrors of the estate? The official synopsis reads, “a chef who opens her first restaurant where she battles kitchen chaos, a dubious investor, and self doubt, but the pressure heats up thanks to the spirit of the estate’s previous owner who threatens to sabotage her”
DeBose earned massive acclaim and an Oscar for her role in Steven Speilberg’s West Side Story and is known for her hosting skills after her memorable Tony Awards compèring. She previously starred in the family fantasy drama Wish opposite Chris Pine and Evan Peters. Her credits also include 2020 Hamilton, Argyle, Pine’s controversial flick The Poolman, and many others.
House of Spoils, helmed and written by Blow The Man Down creators Bridget Savage Cole and Danielle Krudy, explores a unique food-horror genre. Apart from Ferreira and DeBose, Amara Karan, Mikkel Bratt Silset, and Marton Csokas round off the cast. The film will drop on Amazon Prime on October 3.