Twinkle Khanna lauds Stree 2, says ‘It is safer for the strees of this country to encounter a ghost in a dark alley than a man’

In her latest column, actor-turned-author Twinkle Khanna praised Rajkummar Rao and Shraddha Kapoor’s film Stree 2 for its clever role reversal, where “women are free and men are scared”. She commended the film for conveying an important message while also entertaining the audience. Writing for The Times of India in a column titled ‘Why Ghosts Don’t Scare the Indian Stree’, Twinkle observed that “horror films have fewer unsettling components than the scary things we see every day around us”.

She cited examples like “the rape and murder of a trainee doctor in Kolkata” and “two four-year-olds who were sexually abused in a school in Badlapur” to highlight how Amar Kaushik’s film, which depicts a supernatural Stree preying on men who wander around after dusk, is “a subversion of the fear that women experience on a daily basis”.

Twinkle Khanna also shared how she is teaching her daughter the same lessons her mother and grandmother taught her—never to go alone to the park, school, or work, and not to trust any man, whether he is an uncle, cousin, or friend. Twinkle stressed that she tells her daughter to avoid going out at night and emphasized the need for laws to be enforced and followed to guarantee safety for women in public spaces rather than confining them at home.

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She concluded her column with a thought-provoking reflection on how women in India often feel safer encountering a ghost than a man in a dark alley. She wrote, “Till then, I suppose it is safer for the strees of this country to encounter a ghost in a dark alley than a man.”

Stree 2 has emerged as one of the biggest post-pandemic hits, earning over Rs 340 crore in India to date.