Akshay wants me to be like ‘Mrs. Funnybones’: Twinkle Khanna

“And I tell him I probably have to join Baba Ramdev and do 4,000 ‘Kapalbhatis’ a day to be that calm. So I’m not really as cool and collected as ‘Mrs. Funnybones’, but she is the woman I want to be,” she said in a chat with versatile personality Pritish Nandy about her book at a popular bookstore here.

Twinkle also said that Akshay played a key role in her writing getting recognized. Her article supporting the All India Bakchod in their Roast controversy while highlighting country’s other problems, in a leading newspaper was, according to her, what got her noticed.

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This article which went viral on social media had to go through the approval of Akshay before getting published.

“I told my husband, ‘I think I wrote this well’, but he said, ‘No let me see and I’ll decide’. I said, ‘Okay you decide, fine’. I fell asleep that night and the next day it was everywhere. So that did work well.

“I’ve been writing for a year before that but that was the piece that got me noticed, did I think that I would get this reaction? No, I just wrote it, you don’t know where it’s going to go and how, and I just sent it off,” said Twinkle.

“Mrs. Funnybones” has received a good opening in the book market, already featuring in the list of certain bestsellers lists.