Horror comedies | Screaming success
In a dark alley in Chanderi, a young man is lost in a sing-like-nobody’s-listening, messed-up rendition of Nigerian singer Rema and Selena Gomez’s hit track ‘Calm Down’. He is waiting for his friend who seconds earlier has finished humming the lullaby ‘Soft Chitti, Warm Chitti’ (a nod to ‘Soft Kitty’ from The Big Bang Theory) to his girlfriend. Soon, a gross, ginormous headless monster, called what else but Sarkata, enters a room, hides his decapitated head under the bed and then abducts Chitti. As the audience rides this roller-coaster of laughs and scares, Stree 2 has casually strode on to become the second highest-grossing Hindi film of all time in India, projected to eclipse the Rs 554 crore Jawan. Made on less than half the budget of the Shah Rukh Khan-starring action-heavy spec...