Stree 2 BO Collection: Shraddha Starrer Beats Prabhas Starrer Baahubali 2 (Hindi) In 3rd Weekend

Stree 2 Box Office: Starring Shraddha Kapoor and Rajkummar Rao, the film has broken the 7-year record set by Prabhas starrer Baahubali 2 (Hindi) by scoring the highest in the third weekend. The movie, which is yet to enter ₹500 club, is already eyeing to break Jawan's record at the domestic box office. It is standing tall alongside blockbusters like Jawan, Gadar 2, Pathaan, Baahubali 2 (Hindi) and Animal.

Stree 2 box office collection third weekend

Helmed by Amar Kaushik, the horror-comedy minted ₹22 crore on the 18th day at the box office, which is also the third Sunday of the release. The movie witnessed a 33.33 per cent hike in the collection from Saturday and took the third weekend total to ₹47 crore. It has broken the Baahubali 2 (Hindi) record as in the third weekend, Prabha starrer earned ₹42.55 crore.

Adding the three-weekend collection, the total stands at ₹480.05 crore, per Sacnilk. Meanwhile, Stree 2 had an overall 44.05 per cent Hindi occupancy on Sunday with the maximum reported in Jaipur (61 per cent).

The movie has minted a total of ₹115 crore overseas, taking the global box office collection to ₹688.25 crore. 

Apart from Rajkummar and Shraddha, the movie also starred Pankaj Tripathi, Abhishek Banerjee and Aparshakti Khurana in the pivotal roles.

Stree 2 writer calls villain Sarkata 'most warped form of patriarchy'

In an interview with PTI, Niren Bhatt, who has also written other horror-comedy movies in the franchise, Bhediya and Munjya, said people complain that there is a lot of humour but less horror or vice versa. Offering a clarification, he said these are not horror films where actual ghosts are haunting people. All our ghosts are fallacies of our society. Sarkata is the "most warped form of patriarchy". 

"Stree is the symbol of matriarchy, she is not a witch. Bhediya is the protector of the forests. We have designed these characters in a certain way. We are not talking about hocus pocus or spirits out of the blue," the writer told PTI. While Stree revolved around a female ghost, who was wronged in her mortal life, the sequel is a follow-up which focuses on a headless villain called Sarkata with a connection to the eponymous character.