‘STREE’ Movie Review: Thoroughly Enjoyable!!!

Stree, directed by Amar Kaushik, is a comedy about a lovelorn tailor who falls for a girl who may or may not be the ‘Stree’ the town fears. She visits the town annually on the days of the festival, keeps vanishing in mysterious ways, never enters the temple, and, perhaps most damningly in the eyes of the tailor and his friends, doesn’t own a mobile phone. Could young Viki, a tailor so accurate he can measure women with his eyes, have found himself a potential girlfriend? Or is this girl who wants him to make her lehenga the kind of bhoot who likes her clothes bespoke?

It is a potentially hilarious setup of Rajkummar Rao as Viki, flanked by Aparshakti Khurana and Abhishek Banerjee as his two buddies, but despite the immediate likeability of these performers playing off one another with small-town gusto, Stree is hilarious and bring down the house. The dialogues do justice to the situations.

Rao is likeable as ever, especially when rattling off types of blouses, though this is too over-eager a performance to be entirely convincing. Shraddha Kapoor, in fact, brings a certain charm with her looks and once the truth becomes clearer and she has more to do, her performance enhances with the great actors around her.

Khurana is wonderful as a guy who sells readymade clothing and believes in only filling fifty bucks worth of petrol in his bike, while much of the show is stolen by Banerjee, a gangly actor with a zany and unpredictable energy. Tripathi is a fine choice to play that horror-movie cliché — the wise man who knows all and guides the heroes to their destiny — simply because he can render any line irresistible, but it is disappointing, for instance, to watch him have to spell out the basics of the local legend to young men who have grown up in that town and should know better.

Stree is very much likeable with some experimental situations and that what works for the film.

Rating: 4 stars