With its lowest box office take yet—Rs 5.5 crore—per industry tracker Sacnilk on its 21st day, “Stree 2,” starring Rajkummar Rao and Shraddha Kapoor, witnessed Though collections are declining, the Amar Kaushik-directed horror comedy is keeping a constant flow. After 21 days, “Stree 2” has matched the opening day collecting of its competitor, Akshay Kumar’s “Khel Khel Mein,” which brought in Rs 5.05 crore on first day.
Although the declining receipts were projected, “Stree 2” is expected to recover since the forthcoming weekend promises a spike in footfall. The movie has now brought in Rs 520 crore nett and crossed Rs 750 crore worldwide.
With Kangana Ranaut’s “Emergency” postponed, “Stree 2” gets a clean run for another week undisturbed even by Tamil movie “Thalapathy Vijay’s GOAT,” which won’t get a wide Hindi distribution. Strong third-week success of the movie is driven by double-digit occupancy, especially night shows above 18% occupancy. Ahead of the release of Jr NTR and Janhvi Kapoor’s “Devara: Part One,” “Stree 2” is also nearing “Jawan’s lifetime Hindi box office record of Rs 584 crore and could surpass it before the month ends.”
Recently ranking as the top Bollywood success of the year, Stree 2 delighted the cast and crew of the movie. Along with the festivities, though, a peculiar PR fight for credit broke out on social media between the main performers of the film. Dealing with the matter, director Amar Kaushik has now discussed the credit dispute and made clear that it has not affected team camaraderie. He also noted that these kinds of circumstances usually result from outside factors, especially when a movie does really well.
Amar said, ” Honestly, fans of stars usually have this fight on social media where they claim their favourite actor should get all the credit for the movie.” Talking about the social media mania, Amar added It is alright. It is really personal for each. Commonly occurring is fans engaging in a social media dispute over credits. Furthermore, when a movie works well, those around the stars feed such things in the minds of everyone, including the cast, that they should get credit for the movie.’s success.
Part of the Maddock supernatural universe, Stree 2 coexists with movies like Bhediya and Munjya. Fans have been keen to know whether the creators would release Stree 3 or Bhediya 2 first since Varun Dhawan’s character from Bhediya made a cameo in Stree 2. Amar Kaustik headed both Bhediya and Stree 2 and produced hits. Rajkummar Rao offered his take on the upcoming release under this genre in his most recent interview.
Rajkummar Rao was questioned about whether Stree 3 or Bhediya 2 would premiere first on an interview with Bollywood Hungama. The actor first claimed he had no idea the producers had in mind. Then mentioned, nevertheless, that Bhediya 2 might come out soon. Rajkummar clarified that Stree 2 is already in theatres while a follow-up to Bhediya is still to be unveiled. He thus thinks that the audience might see the follow-up to Varun Dhawan’s horror comedy before Stree’s third release. Also starring Kriti Sanon and Abhishek Banerjee, Bhediya debuted in 2022.
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