Kriti Sanon used Daughter’s Day 2026 to draw attention to the everyday safety concerns faced by women, asking society to imagine what it means for a daughter to feel unsafe simply while returning home or using a public space.
Kriti Sanon marked Daughter’s Day on September 27, 2026, with a message that went beyond a conventional celebratory post. The actor spoke about women’s safety and the precautions daughters are often expected to take because of fears surrounding harassment and assault.
Sharing a detailed note on social media, Kriti asked parents and society to imagine receiving a late-night call from a daughter who believes she is being followed.
She accompanied the post with a broken-heart emoji, setting a serious tone for her message.
Kriti Sanon asks society to imagine a daughter feeling unsafe
Kriti’s message centred on several situations that many women consider while travelling alone.
In her note, she wrote:
“This Daughter’s Day, imagine your daughter calling you saying, ‘I think I am being followed by some men.’ Imagine her walking home alone at night, constantly looking over her shoulder. Imagine her phone dying before she reaches home. Now let that sink in…”
The actor then highlighted the precautions women have come to incorporate into their daily routines.
“From sharing live locations to carrying paper sprays to booking a cab instead of walking, or calling someone just to feel safer – we have forced her to make this her lifestyle.”
Rather than treating these precautions as normal parts of growing up, Kriti questioned why women should have to organise their lives around the possibility of being unsafe.
‘What our daughters deserve’
Kriti also described what she believes a truly safe environment for women should look like.
She suggested that Daughter’s Day should be meaningful when a daughter can walk home at night, sit in a park after dark, wear what she chooses or use public transport without constantly worrying about her safety.
Her message focused on the broader issue of being able to occupy public spaces without having to continually calculate the risk of harassment or assault.
She ended the note with a message addressed directly to daughters:
“To every daughter who has ever called home and said, ‘I’ve reached.’ May you one day live in a world where you don’t have to. That is the world our daughters deserve! And that is the world we owe them.”
The post subsequently drew attention on social media, with users praising Kriti for using Daughter’s Day to raise the issue of women’s safety.
Kriti Sanon has previously spoken about how women are judged
Kriti’s latest message also comes after a recent controversy surrounding one of her fashion choices in a Raksha Bandhan advertisement.
The actor faced criticism over the deep neckline of the blouse she wore in the campaign, with the issue also becoming part of a wider debate about how women’s clothing is judged.
Following the backlash, Kriti and her sister Nupur Sanon spoke about the criticism and questioned the tendency to connect a woman’s clothing with her respect for culture and tradition.
In her earlier statement, Kriti wrote:
“When will we stop telling women what to wear?? Ethnic fashion has evolved over the years, but still a woman’s respect for her culture is measured with just her clothes!! Culture & Traditions are in her heart, not in her neckline!”
That earlier debate and her Daughter’s Day message both touch on different aspects of the way women navigate public life, although Kriti’s latest post specifically focuses on safety and freedom in public spaces.
What is next for Kriti Sanon?
On the professional front, Kriti was most recently seen in ** Cocktail 2 **, alongside Shahid Kapoor and Rashmika Mandanna.
As of the information available for this report, the actor has not announced her next film project.
For now, her Daughter’s Day message has shifted attention away from her film career and towards a wider conversation about what safety and freedom should mean for women and girls.
