Is Shraddha Kapoor’s role in Stree inspired by the infamous Nun from The Conjuring?

By Sneha Bale

on July 21, 2018

Filmmakers Raj and DK are known to bring unusual comedy on screen and they will be back with another flick soon. For their next venture, they have turned producers to director Amar Kaushik’s film Stree starring Shraddha Kapoor and Rajkummar Rao in the lead roles. After zombie-comedy, action-comedy and thrillers, this time they bring us a horror-comedy.

The teaser of Stree was launched digitally last month. While the teaser clearly doesn’t give out anything, it sure manages to get our curiosity sky high. In the one minute video, the camera takes us through the dark and narrow lanes, each of them having one similarity. Every house carries the text “Oh stree kal aana” (Hey lady, come tomorrow) in red colour – making it loud and clear. Towards the end, the camera stops at a wall that carries the text “Oh Stree, August 31 aana” – announcing the release date of the film.

Yesterday, the lead actor of Stree, Rajkummar shared a series of images on his Instagram story which gave us a sneak peek at Shraddha’s first look in the film. This series of images worked like a stop-motion poster. He captioned the first image as “Do you see someone?” the next three were followed with Shraddha coming closer to towards the camera. She is dressed in black attire keeping only her face and palms visible, which looks entirely pale and scary. A first look at these images will remind you of the infamous ghost referred as NUN from Hollywood’s popular film franchise, The Conjuring.

Stree is based on a popular yet ridiculous phenomenon, as the makers cite it. During the 1990’s in Karnataka, a popular urban legend became a household belief. The myth says that a lady came knocking at everyone’s door, late at night. She would mimic a familiar voice for the other person to open the door. If and when the person opened the door to let her in, they would end up dead. To put an end to this drama, people started writing “Nale Ba” meaning “come tomorrow” outside their houses, asking the lady to return the next day.