Watched it and I am disappointed.
With the rise of Netflix and Amazon, watching movies at the theater has been limited for me. However I was excited after reading good reviews/box office collections as I had enjoyed first installment of Stree but it just wasn’t up to the mark.
*May have Spoilers*
At the beginning of the movie, Raj & DK were credited as the original writers of Stree whose characters are being used in Stree 2 under a different writer. It seems Raj & DK had a fallout with producer Dinesh Vijan due to which they decided to part ways. Even though Stree 2 continues to make box office collection history, I am sad that the standard of writing has been compromised. Raj & DK – your storytelling is sorely missed and I am not at all interested in Stree 3 now.
This film works due to the 4 ensemble male cast members. Raj, Pankaj, Aparshakti and Abhishek are good, and their rapports manages to bring in many laughs/scares but you can only do so much when script is weak. Shraddha looks beautiful you cannot deny that, but that’s it. She has limited dialogs, same expression plastered everywhere and gets to do some action. Honestly, anyone could have played her part and they tried to create mystery around her character, but I was bored.
Story is weak and it was pushing viewers to SarKata’s plot without any sense. Desperate need to formulate a story just to appease the audience who were anticipating a sequel after an unexpectedly entertaining first movie. I know we can’t expect logic in such movies, but it was just senseless. People not realizing girls in the village are missing/abducted for years, Janna watching Sarkata’s underworld like a live TV broadcast, Raj and Shraddha merging to enter Sarkata’s underworld (inspired from Stranger Things I presume) and many more. They were trying to defeat Sarkata without any proper direction. At the end (which was dragged), it was Sarkata VS Stree (who came back after Shraddha’s one scream) and no one else was needed.
Merging in Bhediya story line and Varun-Abhishek scene at the forest in the end was annoying. Akshay’s cameo was brought it just to share one line of prophecy. So unnecessary. They compensated Shraddha’s lack of screen space with two songs in end credit 
. Why the second song with Raj and Varun?Just to show her as a glamorous Bollywood actor. They only needed to show Akshay’s scene at the end to confirm Part 3.
Stree 2 was made to monetize the hype created by Stree 1.
Rating: 1.5 stars.
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