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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”.
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.
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