Funnybones that TWINKLE
Former Bollywood actress-turned author, Twinkle Khanna was in namma city to promote her book
By : namita gupta
Update: 2015-11-25 22:47 GMT
Although she couldn’t create a stir on celluloid, Twinkle Khanna has managed to garner quite an astounding fan base with her witty observations. We catch up with the celeb daughter, star wife and interior designer, who looked so comfortable in her new author avatar on her visit to Bengaluru. Dressed in a pair of slim jeans and statement accessories, she revealed, “I’m not a star. I’m just a little star that twinkles,” to a fan who questioned her on what she feels about living in a house with another star, at the launch of her book, Mrs Funnybones in the city.
Twinkle has touched topics like public hypocrisy, government policy, luxury bags, kids and mother-in-laws in her tongue-in-cheek writings. How does her mother-in-law or the society women she talks of, react to her comments? “I tackle my mother-in-law by showing everything to my sister-in-law first. They’re fine about it. I think they’re actually very proud of me. I also take digs at some of my high society friends, but I give them a heads up before the column is coming out. Sometimes, I send them snapshots from my laptop and tell them – look this is coming tomorrow, so be prepared. Of course I try not to be too nasty and try to diminish all the negatives,” she states.
Twinkle is known to paraphrase anecdotes from real life incidents, but are all the incidents in her book real or are some fictional, we nudge and she confesses, “Yes, there’s lots of fiction. There are lots of things that I overhear, things that someone else has done, that I would make somebody else do.” And how funny is her husband Akshay Kumar at home, we prod next and pat comes the reply, “He’s funny at home, but both of us have slightly different genres of humour. He makes people laugh and then he laughs all the way to the bank.”
She loves to talk about parenting, but does the mother of two have any parenting rules about raising her own kids, we question and she quips, “One can’t really say that you’ve succeeded as a parent, until your kids have grown up and are ruling a country. My only rule in parenting is to be open and joke about every single thing, so that when they do have to talk to us about various things, they don’t hesitate, as you have left the door open for them. I joke about everything, sometimes to a point that my son and my husband cringes, but I think that’s the way to be in today’s world.” Ask her on the kind of books she likes to read and she states, “I might look like this, but I’m a pimply teenage boy inside. I love to read science fiction every night before going to bed.”
Affable, down-to-earth and funny, Twinkle lets us in on her next book. “I’ve already begun writing. It’s not columns, but pure fiction. It’s a story about love, women, middle age and mortality, but I don’t know how long it’s going to take,” she says before signing off.
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