Fairy) is a 2018 Indian Hindi language supernatural horror film directed by Prosit Roy in his debut.

[4] Parambrata Chatterjee, Ritabhari Chakraborty, Rajat Kapoor and Mansi Multani feature in supporting roles.

Rukhsana is the daughter of one such woman, who was a victim of the satanic ritual but escaped her captivity before Professor Ali could kill her child.

The woman dies and when the police searches her home, an old hut in the forest, they find a dirty Rukhsana chained inside.

Though Arnab mistakes it for her period, the truth is that her body needs to spew out the poison it produces every month due to her demon blood.

[4] The film's motion poster, promotionally called Screamer, was released on 9 January 2018, showing the face of Sharma's character getting bruised.

[9] A 30-second clip, the second "screamer", was released on 3 February 2018, which showed Sharma watching a cartoon on television with an idyllic smile, giving the impression that she is safe and okay.

[16] The film has been banned in Pakistan for allegedly promoting black magic, some non-Islamic values and anti-Muslim sentiments.

While Renuka Vyavahare of TOI called it “Anushka’s strongest work as an actor-producer so far”, she also went on to add that, “Pari has the ability to redefine the genre as it’s refreshingly different, atmospheric and moody”.

"[22] Rohit Bhatnagar of Deccan Chronicle stated: “Pari is a delightful treat to those who are fond of horror flicks.

And stop complaining that Bollywood doesn't produce good horror films!”[23] Koimoi reviewed Pari as “one of the best to come out of this genre”.

As a last word they added: “Hollywood, please take out the notepad and write down the stuff from Pari on how to make a non-clichéd horror film.

[24] Gulf news gave the movie 3 stars out of 5 and wrote that “Anushka Sharma’s horror film is a world apart from other ghoulish Bollywood offerings, and that’s a good thing”.

"[26] Lakshana N Palat of India Today gave the film a rating of 2 out of 5 saying that, "The story of Pari is submerged under irrelevant scenes, jump scares, and the desperate need to fall into the horror-film category.

"[27] Shubhra Gupta of The Indian Express gave the film a rating of 1 out of 5 and concluded her review by saying that, "Anushka Sharma plays Rukhsana with a great deal of bloody enthusiasm.

"[28] Saibal Chatterjee of NDTV said about the film that, "It lacks the narrative consistency that its in-your-face methods needed in order to be truly effective.