From Bollywood to South, there will be a flavor of horror comedy, these films will come from ‘Stree 3’ to ‘Thama’

The year 2024 is not considered to be a good year in terms of box office, because very few films have performed well this year. Now only about one and a half months is left for the completion of the year. But till now only 7 films have entered the Rs 100 crore club. But the surprising thing is that this year has confirmed the bumper success of the horror comedy genre which has been becoming increasingly popular in the past few years. This can be gauged from the fact that this year’s highest grossing horror comedy genre film ‘Stree 2’ has become the highest grossing Hindi film till date. Another film of the horror comedy genre is ‘Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3’, which has become the second highest grossing film of the year. Whereas another film of the same genre ‘Munjya’ also surprised everyone by entering the Rs 100 crore club. On the other hand, Ajay Devgan’s horror film ‘Shaitan’ also earned Rs 150 crore. That means, out of the 7 films that reached the Rs 100 crore club this year, four are of horror comedy or horror genre. Not only this, the recently re-released film ‘Tumbbad’ also achieved surprising success.

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Akshay Kumar started

If we look at the history of Bollywood horror films, Ramsay Brothers’ horror films were in the news in the seventies and eighties. In the year 2003, Vikram Bhatt started the ‘Raaz’ franchise. Under this he/she made four films. In the year 2008, he/she started another horror franchise 1920. Under this, he/she has made a total of five films so far. However, despite all the efforts of Vikram Bhatt, horror films in Bollywood were not getting many audiences. People preferred watching Hollywood horror films rather than Bollywood horror films.

Meanwhile, in the year 2007, director Priyadarshan, who was in the news for his/her comedy films, made ‘Bhool Bhulaiyaa’ with Akshay Kumar. In the remake of superstar Mohanlal’s Malayalam film ‘Bhool Bhulaiyaa’, Priyadarshan added a touch of horror along with comedy. Surprisingly the audience liked this film very much. The very next year in 2008, the horror comedy film ‘Bhoothnath’ starring Amitabh Bachchan, Shahrukh Khan and Juhi Chawla also got the love of the audience. Vikram Bhatt was continuing his/her series of horror films, but the series of horror comedy genre films had also started in Bollywood. After this, the sequel of ‘Bhootnath’ ‘Bhootnath 2’ came in the year 2014. Amar Kaushik’s horror comedy ‘Stree’, released in 2018, made this genre a favorite of the audience. This film surprised everyone by entering the Rs 100 crore club.

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Found a new formula for success

In the year 2020, Corona gave a big blow to the film industry. The year 2021 also fell victim to Corona. Even in the year 2022, amidst the continuous flop of films, the film industry people were not able to understand what kind of films the audience would like to watch in the changed times. Meanwhile, Kartik Aryan’s horror comedy ‘Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2’, released in the summer of 2022, surprised everyone by earning Rs 185 crore. The huge success of this film gave a new hit formula to the Bollywood people who were disappointed with the continuous flopping of films after Corona.

However, before this, two films of horror comedy genre released in the year 2021, ‘Bhoot Police’ and ‘Roohi’ did not perform well. Even in the year 2022, films of horror comedy genre like ‘Phone Bhoot’ and ‘Bhediya’ did not achieve success. Whereas in the year 2023, the success of films like Shahrukh Khan’s ‘Jawaan’, ‘Pathan’ and Sunny Deol’s ‘Gadar 2’ and Ranbir Kapoor’s ‘Animal’ raised new flags. Whereas the beginning of 2024 was the opposite. The first six months of the year were not good for cinema people. But the horror comedy ‘Stree 2’ and then ‘Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3’, released on August 15, raised the flag of success.

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Will keep an eye on these films

At present, the film industry has got a new source of success in the form of horror comedy genre. This is the reason why in the coming days, Bollywood people are not only planning to make ‘Stree 3’, the sequel of ‘Stree 2’, ‘Bhool Bhulaiyaa 4’, the sequel of ‘Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3’. In fact, discussion has started about making the third part of another old hit horror comedy ‘Bhootnath 3’, ‘Bhootnath 3’. Here, by introducing wolf in ‘Stree’, its makers are planning to create a super natural universe. Under this, the next film will be Ayushmann Khurrana’s ‘Vampire of Vijayanagar’. The name of this film has now been changed to ‘Thama’.

On the other hand, director Priyadarshan of Akshay Kumar’s ‘Bhool Bhulaiyaa’ is planning to bring another horror comedy ‘Bhoot Bangla’ in collaboration with Akshay. Also, the makers of two horror films ‘Shaitan’ and ‘Tumbbad’ which were hits last year are also working on their sequel. Not only Bollywood people but people from South are preparing to bet on the horror comedy genre. Superstar Prabhas’s next film Raja Saab is also said to be an offering in the horror comedy genre.
Producer and film business analyst Girish Johar said, ‘From Bollywood to Hollywood, audiences have always liked horror films. Whereas producers like them because of their low budget. The trend of horror comedy has been in discussion for some time now. There is full hope of doing well in future also.