August 28, 2024, 1:52 p.m. IST
Abhishek Banerjee has responded to the striking similarities between the posters of “Street 2” and the Netflix fantasy series “Stranger Things”.
Abhishek Banerjee is basking in the box office success of ‘Street 2’. The actor plays Jana in the horror comedy. When the poster of ‘Street 2’ was released earlier this month, many social media users noticed how similar it looked to the posters of ‘Stranger Things’ and called it ’embarrassing’. In a new interview with Bollywood Hungama, the actor has now responded to the backlash. (Also Read: ‘Street 2’ actor Abhishek Banerjee reveals he was offered three lead roles after the film’s success: I can’t do boring things)
“Hamara toh kaam hai poster pe aana”
Speaking on the issue, Abhishek said, “No, I have no idea. But marketing and posters are just a part of us. So is the actor. But that is not what we think the poster is, it is a child’s play (Who knows what happened. I have no idea how the marketing team, which is responsible for the poster design, comes up with these ideas. My job is to appear on these posters, not to make them).”
Both the Stranger Things 2 poster and the Stree 2 poster follow the same color scheme with a blue background on the bottom half and an orange background on the top half, with the movie title spelled out in red. Only the cast positioning and titles are different.
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Stree 2 became a huge commercial success and broke several records at the box office. The film collected over ₹400 crore nett in India less than two weeks after its release. It also stars Rajkummar Rao, Shraddha Kapoor and Pankaj Tripathi in lead roles. Directed by Amar Kaushik, the sequel sees Rajkummar’s Vicky and his friends, as well as the nameless mysterious woman played by Shraddha, facing a new terror in the form of a one-headed ghost named Sarkata.
