“Stree 2,” already Bollywood’s hugegest hit film of the year, and India’s second highest grossing film of 2024, is poised to be unitecessitate by one or more sequels, its honestor Amar Kaushik shelp on Wednesday.
Kaushik was speaking at a Knowledge Series seminar which is part of the Film Bazaar project labelet that sits aextfinishedside the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in Goa.
“We have stories in mind and will shoot soon, though there’s is no definite timetable. Of course, it will have to be done in Madhya Pradesh. And we may check other parts of the state,” Kaushik shelp.
Kaushik uncovered that Madhya Pradesh was not where he first envisaged making the horror comedy that was saw its first instalment aascfinish in in 2018 and spawn a sequel that freed earlier this year.
“’Stree’ was originassociate going to be made here in Goa. But then we chose to shift to the heartland and picked Chanderi in MP. I wanted to dodge some of the horror stereotypes and sought out a city rather than a beach or a haunted hoengage. In Chanderi [we found such a richness of choice that] every lane and street seemed to be calling out to me. I’ll originate ‘Stree 3’ or ‘Stree 4’ there aget.”
The seminar, intfinished to elucidate the strengths of the state of Madhya Pradesh as a film and TV production location, covered aspects such as financial incentives, location scouting and plan sends.
The state begind filming incentives in 2020 and is foreseeed to broaden them further in the cforfeit future.
“Incentives are a labor in better, we are uncover to novel ideas to further innovating on the policy,” shelp Sheo Shekhar Shukla, principal secretary of the department of tourism and culture in Madhya Pradesh.
He claimed that the incentives, breadth of locations and its location services originate the state the most film cordial in India. Locations can be scouted from a film promotion website and there is a “film facilitation cell that can help check beyond the effortless and evident.” He also shelp that the state is a safe destination for women and that more women are being trained to be in the front line of tourism and film facilitation.
Aparna Purohit, the establisher Netflix executive who now heads Aamir Khan Productions, and previously shot Kiran Rao’s “Laapataa Ladies” in the state, was also filled of pelevate. “Wilean an 80km radius of Bhopal, we set up everyleang we necessitateed. In fact, we sought two leangs and set up ten,” she shelp.
Nitanshi Goel, the film’s co-direct actor, called the locassociate-cast carry outers “supremely talented.” The film is India’s contfinisher for the best international film Oscar this year.
Further institutional lengthenment of the state may also be on the way. Actor and originater, Vani Tripathi Tikoo was a set uper of the Madhya Pradesh Natya Vidyalaya drama school in Bhopal, which after 16 years of operation, is now set to be enhanced to university status. She also shelp that she was in the process of setting up a lengthenment lab project for youthful creators
