Only on: Director Amar Kaushik reveals the connection between Bhediya’s post-credit scene and Stree sequel; talks about creating the Maddock Supernatural Universe
Stree 2, featuring Shraddha Kapoor and Rajkummar Rao, is the newest addition to the Maddock Supernatural Universe. The movie has been a huge success at the box office. In an exclusive chat with Pinkvilla, director Amar Kaushik talked about the universe and how he connected the post-credit scene of Bhediya to Stree 2.
In a special interview with Pinkvilla, Amar Kaushik said, “Bhediya banate banate yeh universe bana hai kahin na kahin (This universe has been formed somewhere while making Bhediya).” He mentioned that when they started writing for the Varun Dhawan starrer, they didn’t know if Stree 2 would ever be made. Everyone thought it wouldn’t happen, so when he informed the team that it had been written, they were surprised.
Amar went on to say, “Yeh jab universe ban raha tha toh mere dimag me yeh tha ki kaise mai sare characters ko aapas me jodun (When this universe was being created, I was thinking how to connect all the characters together).”
Discussing the integration of Abhishek Banerjee’s character from Stree into Bhediya, he explained, “Bhediya is its own standalone story.. Jana’s character has come to Delhi and he is wearing the same clothes as he wore in Stree 1, he is talking like that, just his full name is taken as Janardan. He is not being called Jana; his friends used to call him that.”
Watch the full interview here!
Regarding the post-credit scene of Bhediya used in Stree 2, Amar Kaushik added, “Fir yeh hua ki isko jodna hai Stree se… Kab bolenge ki yeh (Jana) woh wala character hai? Humne socha.. ki let’s call Stree ke characters in this film. Then we wanted to link it to Stree… When will we say that this is that character? We thought to call Stree’s characters in this film) But why will they come?”
Amar also mentioned that Stree 3 was at the idea stage and they just needed to format it into a screenplay. He shared that they had many more ideas for upcoming movies, like exploring characters with smaller roles in previous films and giving them bigger arcs in future projects.
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