Mar 07, 2026 6:00pm IST
On Women’s Day, Rhea Chakraborty Adds the ‘Smash The Patriarchy’ tee to her Collection (EXCLUSIVE)
When Rhea Chakraborty and her brother Showik launched a unisex streetwear label Chapter 2 Drip in August 2024, it was started with a focus on healing as well as self-expression.
The label started off with an online presence before the siblings opened their flagship store in Mumbai in May 2025. The streetwear features empowering messages, but was missing something: the tee that started it all. In September 2020, she wore a t-shirt when arriving for questioning at the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB). It was the day she was arrested. That statement-making tee went viral. It had the words, “Roses are red, violets are blue, let’s smash the patriarchy, me and you.”
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Overnight, the actress got support from women of all ages from across the country. After being arrested under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act, 1985 and being booked under Sections 8(c), 20(b)(ii), 27A, 28, and 29 of the NDPS Act, Rhea spent 27 days in jail. In March 2025, India’s top investigation body, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filed a closure report giving the actress a clean chit.
Rhea became the face for smashing the patriarchy. But oddly enough, the tee was missing from her collection… until now. She exclusively told Variety India, “It is now available in the store and the website. When we started the brand, we kept thinking about bringing in that T-shirt to our collection, but we never got around to it. For this Women’s Day collection, we decided, let’s just bring ‘Smash the Patriarchy’ back. And now it is back, in many different ways.”
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