Stree Movie Review

‘The myth that women shouldn’t lift heavy is only perpetuated by women who fear work and men who fear women’

Various Myths are exist all around the world and many literature based on it. Nale Ba is the myth about witch, popular in Karnataka. ‘Stree’ Hindi Movie based on this idea. Directed by Amar Kaushik. Genre of movie is Horror comedy so it gives lot of thrills and spills.  In a way Woman cum Witch  fight for her own dignity and love and in the end people worship her by making statue and ‘O Stree Kal Aana’ becomes ‘O Stree Raksha Karna’ Thus, Whole story centered in Four days Pooja in temple and these four days Menfolk lives in Terror by tales of mysterious women, who is comes in four nights of Pooja.


 Movie starts with rising of dull sun in quaint town of chanderi. With the running of Vicky (Raj Kumar Rao) camera moves all around in the town, and the language of camera speaks a lot about town.  Everywhere in the town notice on gate that ‘Women come Tomorrow’, it’s the curious beginning of movie.  Vicky has a girlfriend (Shraddha Kapoor) but, her disappearing acts gets  his friends suspicious and they start believing that she could be the Stree who haunting the city for long. Thus, Shraddha Kapoor’s character is a bit of an enigma.


Bookshop owner Rudra (Pankaj Triptahi) treat people how to cope with Stree and haunting act. It spreads humors though he is researcher and want solution from Terror of mysterious women. He tells a story that there was a prostitute who died in her wedding night and her soul still howling. She is finding her love and that is the reason she catches the male of town and leave only clothes behind it. Movie has not single story but stories of every home, how they protect themselves from Stree and change in their routine life, males can not go outside of home in this four nights.


Misogyny  and chauvinism are social evils that exist in societies all around world. Director made a good attempt to talk on this side. Resistance or rebel against male by only Stree but I think women’s resistances made her witch in so called civilization. Here, witch means,  not a good women who fit in stereotypes. Here Director also try to Come out from bollywood heroism and made son of trailer, a good trailer, a good artist in sewing is our hero.  

Movie ends with lot of question in my mind that,at last they come back with pride that they cut cue of witch but is it victory for them or only victory for Shraddha?
If Shraddha is really witch then who is the other one whose cue cut by Rakshak? And why Shraddha put it cue in her own hair? To become more powerful? Will she come next year with more strength?