Stree 2

 Stree 2: Sarkate Ka Aatank transl. Woman 2: Terror of the Headless is a 2024 Hindi-language comedy horror film directed by means of Amar Kaushik, written by means of Niren Bhatt, and produced together by means of Maddock Films and Jio Studios. It is the 5th installment in the Maddock Supernatural Universe and is a sequel to Stree 2018. The movie stars Rajkummar Rao, Shraddha Kapoor, Pankaj Tripathi, Abhishek Banerjee and Aparshakti Khurana and follows a set of pals that ought to defeat a malevolent entity abducting the girls of Chanderi.

Kaushik first expressed interest in developing a sequel to Stree in October 2018. By February 2022, Rao showed that the challenge become in development; but, authentic writers and producers Raj & DK were not involved, having parted methods with producer Dinesh Vijan over the rights to the franchise. As a end result, Bhatt took over as the writer. The sequel become formally announced through Vijan and Jyoti Deshpande in April 2023. Principal pictures began in July of the same year, usually taking location in Chanderi and Bihar, and concluded through mid-2024. The movie functions a musical rating composed by using Sachin–Jigar, with additional scoring by using Justin Varghese. Cinematography turned into conducted through Jishnu Bhattacharjee, and the enhancing changed into dealt with through Hemanti Sarkar.

Stree 2 changed into theatrically released international on 15 August 2024 and acquired fantastic reviews from critics. The movie has grossed over ₹644 crore at the field office, emerging as the second one highest-grossing Indian movie of 2024, the very best-grossing Hindi film of 2024, the highest-grossing Indian horror movie of all time and the 9th maximum-grossing Hindi movie of all time.

The film opens with the ending scene of the previous instalment, wherein Stree is set to re-enter Chanderi. She notices a statue of herself at the city entrance with the inscription, o stree raksha karna oh lady shield us, and chooses to go away. Years later, Chanderi faces a new risk: a headless ghost named Sarkata, who abducts women at night time and drags them right into a nightmarish exchange size. The townspeople, blind to the ghost’s presence, mistakenly consider the lacking girls have left for higher possibilities. Vicky, nonetheless in love with the Girl With No Name, credited as She, frequently imagines her performing before him. Meanwhile, Rudra receives an anonymous letter containing lacking pages from the Chanderi Puran and a cryptic message: vo aayega he'll come.

One night time, Bittu's lady friend, Chitti, is taken by means of Sarkata. A beggar who witnessed the kidnapping confirms the ghost's lifestyles. Vicky, Bittu, and Rudra check out the torn pages of the Chanderi Puran and discover Sarkata’s beginning. They find out that Sarkata is the vengeful spirit of Chandrabhan, a former village head who murdered Stree, a courtesan, with the aid of beheading her husband and burning her alive. After Stree’s departure from Chanderi, Sarkata has again to target progressive ladies. Realising they need Stree's assist to defeat Sarkata, the friends are seeking for out Jana in Delhi, who became once possessed through Stree.

Jana, residing along with his cousin Bhaskar, is lured back to Chanderi underneath the pretext of a stage play via them scene from Bhediya, however whilst he discovers the actual motive, he reluctantly agrees to help. While searching for Stree on the antique citadel, Sarkata attacks and nearly kills Jana, who stories visions of the trade dimension where the abducted ladies are held captive. Believing Jana to be dead, the organization is stunned when he revives, and they narrowly break out the citadel with Sarkata in pursuit. As Sarkata terrorises the metropolis, She reappears and saves the institution by way of preventing Sarkata the usage of the powers of Stree’s braid connected to her hair. The city’s girls, living in worry, blame Vicky for defeating Stree, which they trust caused Sarkata’s emergence.

They pressure Vicky to take obligation for the brand new threat, and She convinces him that his pure soul makes him the proper man or woman for the task. She gives Vicky a paranormal dagger and instructs him to use it to cut Sarkata's head in half. To lure Sarkata, the institution organises a dance overall performance with the aid of Shama, Rudra's lady friend. During the overall performance, Sarkata seems, however Vicky fails to decapitate him. Sarkata then possesses all of the guys gift, besides for Vicky, Rudra, and Jana. Sarkata sooner or later abducts Shama, and the possessed men, along with Bittu, start controlling the metropolis's ladies.

Desperate for a solution, the group follows a clue from the nameless letter to a mental asylum, where they meet a descendant of Sarkata. The guy famous that Sarkata can most effective be defeated via a being this is half of both—neither completely guy nor lady, human nor animal. With this knowledge, She merges her body with Vicky’s, growing a being capable of coming into Sarkata’s lair. Inside the lair, Vicky and She confront Sarkata. Vicky cuts Sarkata’s head in 1/2 with the paranormal dagger, however each severed head regenerates into more than one new heads. As they're crushed, Bhaskar arrives in his werewolf shape and assaults Sarkata.

However, the war turns into dire when Sarkata reattaches his head and overpowers Bhaskar. In a final attempt, She calls out to her mom, who's revealed to be Stree. Stree arrives and, with Vicky’s help, defeats Sarkata through beheading him again and dragging his body into the lava, destroying him for top. After Sarkata’s defeat, the ladies are freed, and the guys are released from the ghost’s manipulate. Vicky and his friends are celebrated as heroes. She reveals that she is a ghost and should depart, but no longer before whispering her name to Vicky.

In the woods, Bhaskar, now human, receives garments from Jana scene from Munjya and asks Jana to set him up with She, to which he declines, but Bhaskar maintains to plead. In a mid-credits scene, a mysterious pot containing Sarkata's remains reaches the intellectual organization, in which his descendant inhales the flaming smoke from the stays and turns into possessed by the monster, hinting at the go back of the phobia.