In the small town of Chanderi, the men there live in fear of the angry female spirit known as the Stree, who stalks and abducts men, leaving behind their clothes. Handsome village tailor Vicky doesn’t believe in its existence, at least, until he meets a beautiful, unnamed woman that other men can’t see.
The take
You know how, instead of condemning sexual violence, some people patronizingly advise women to go home early, move in groups for safety, and make sure to lock the door for safety? Stree takes this usual advice and uses it instead as fictional ritual practices for the men in the small town of Chanderi to escape from the titular spirit. It’s a rather cheeky inversion, one that resolves in a familiar, though understandable, way. While Stree takes a more comedic, jumpscare approach, it does rightly point out that if half of the population acted like this spirit, then the fear the other half feels would undeniably be reasonable.
What stands out
Mild spoilers! I love that to solve everything, the whole town had to learn from the Stree’s story.
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