Amar Kaushik’s entertaining ‘Stree 2’ gives us exactly what we go in for: a silly ghost story with more laughs than scares

The chief pleasure of the ‘Stree’ films is watching Rajkummar Rao, Aparshakti Khurana, Pankaj Tripathi, and the delightful Abhishek Banerjee. Whoever thought of throwing in these four together is a genius.

The Stree universe, directed by Amar Kaushik, truly has the most obedient ghost in the history of the movies. In the first part, she saw the words “O Stree, Kal Aana”, and obediently stayed away from wherever those words were written. In this second part, which has the deliciously pulpy title of Sarkate Ka Aatank (Terror of the Headless), she sees a new set of words. This time, it is “O Stree, Raksha Karna”, and again, she stays away. At least, earlier, she chose to terrorise the men who were found outside the vicinity of those words, or where one or more of those words were erased. Here, she stays away completely. That, I suppose, is a form of raksha, protection. She proves even more obedient at the film’s end, when she answers the call of… I won’t tell you, but it is a very satisfying answer to who the unnamed Shraddha Kapoor character from Part 1 is.

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