Kriti Sanon's Daughter's Day post asks why women must plan their lives around safety

Kriti Sanon used Daughter's Day to talk about safety instead of celebration. In an Instagram post, the actress asked parents to picture the fear many women carry every time they step out. She said the day will only be worth celebrating once that fear is gone.

She opened by asking readers to imagine a daughter calling home to say she thinks some men are following her. She described a young woman walking alone at night and checking over her shoulder again and again, and a phone that dies before she reaches home. "Now let that sink in," she wrote.

Kriti then listed the habits women have been pushed into for their own protection. Sharing a live location, keeping pepper spray close, taking a cab rather than walking, and calling someone just to feel safer have all become routine, she said. In her view, daughters have been forced to make these precautions a way of life.

The actress said the real Daughter's Day will come when a daughter can walk home at night, sit in a park after dark, wear what she likes, use public transport and simply be in a public space without weighing the risk of assault. She ended with a note to every daughter who has ever called home to say "I've reached", hoping they one day live in a world where that call is not needed. "That is the world our daughters deserve! And that is the world we owe them!" she wrote.

Her message reportedly comes amid protests in Delhi over the alleged gang rape of a 17-year-old girl at a park in Kalkaji. Reports say hundreds of students, many of them from Delhi University colleges, have marched to demand safer public spaces for women.

On the work front, Kriti was last seen in Cocktail 2, where she shared the screen with Shahid Kapoor and Rashmika Mandanna.