[ad_1]
\n<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
Mumbai: Twinkle Khanna, aka Mrs Funnybones, spoke about the \u2018strees (women)\u2019 of India not being scared of ghosts in her latest column for The Times of India, titled \u2018Why ghosts don\u2019t scare the Indian Stree\u2019. The actor-turned-author began by narrating \u2018one of the apocryphal tales\u2019 of her childhood, which revolved around her great aunt being \u2018possessed by an evil spirit\u2019.<\/p>\n
She then went on to list how horror movies seem to contain \u2018less unsettling components than the scary things we see every day around us\u2019. Twinkle mentioned \u2018the rape and murder of a trainee doctor in Kolkata\u2019, \u2018two four-year-olds who were sexually abused in a school in Badlapur\u2019 and other cases as she spoke about how Stree 2 was \u2018a subversion of the fear that women experience on a daily basis\u2019.<\/p>\n
She wrote, \u201cFifty years on this planet, and I find that we are still teaching our daughters the same things that I was taught as a child. Don\u2019t go alone. To the park, to school, to work. Don\u2019t go alone with any man, even if it\u2019s your uncle, cousin or friend. Don\u2019t go alone in the morning or evening, and especially not at night. Don\u2019t go alone because it\u2019s not a matter of if, but when. Don\u2019t go alone because you may never come back.\u201d<\/p>\n
Twinkle concluded, \u201cIt is time to ensure that laws are enforced and followed, guaranteeing safety measures for women in public spaces instead of confining us at home. Till then, I suppose it is safer for the strees (women) of this country to encounter a ghost in a dark alley than a man.\u201d<\/p>\n
Twinkle wrote that scary movies can also be an entertaining way of conveying an important social message like in Stree 2. In the first instalment of what is now turning into an entire horror universe, she said there is a \u2018role reversal\u2019 to the kinds of stories her grandmother would tell her during childhood to \u2018scare\u2019 her sister Rinkie Khanna and her, so they \u2018didn\u2019t wander off to the adjacent Juhu beach\u2019 near their house.<\/p>\n
However, in Stree, \u2018women are free, and men are scared, as the supernatural Stree, who descends for four nights in a year, only preys on men wandering around after dusk\u2019. Starring Shraddha Kapoor and Rajkummar Rao, Stree 2 is turning out to be one of the biggest Hindi films of recent years and has already grossed over \u20b9450 crore worldwide after releasing on Independence Day 2024.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
[ad_2]
<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
[ad_1] \u00a0 Mumbai: Twinkle Khanna, aka Mrs Funnybones, spoke about the \u2018strees (women)\u2019 of India not being scared of ghosts in her latest column for The Times of India, titled \u2018Why ghosts don\u2019t scare the Indian Stree\u2019. The actor-turned-author began by narrating \u2018one of the apocryphal tales\u2019 of her childhood, which revolved around her great […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Twinkle-Khanna-says-ghosts-dont-scare-Indian-strees-men-do.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42309,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42307\/revisions\/42309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}