Actor-turned-writer Twinkle Khanna says that her husband Akshay Kumar wants her to be calm and collected like the character in her book Mrs Funnybones.
“And I tell him I probably have to join Baba Ramdev and do 4,000 kapalbhatis (breathing exercise) 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 personality Pritish Nandy about her book at a bookstore in Mumbai.
Khanna also said that Kumar played a key role in her writing getting recognised. Her article in a leading newspaper supporting All India Bakchod after their roast controversy while highlighting the country’s other problems was, according to her, what got her noticed.
The article that went viral on social media had to go through the approval of Kumar 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 Khanna.
