Twinkle Khanna: Actor-turned-writer Twinkle Khanna knows how to laugh at herself and her acting career. The daughter of actors Dimple Kapadia and Rajesh Khanna, Twinkle made her acting debut opposite Bobby Deol in 1995’s Barsaat. She has also acted in films such as Mela and Itihaas.
In a 2015 interview with a publication, Twinkle in a self-deprecating tone, downplayed her acting talents and said that even her son makes fun of her films. Twinkle and her husband, actor Akshay Kumar, have a son and a daughter —Aarav and Nitara. “I don’t let my children watch my movies. And my son is an a**. There’s a scene in Jaan, and he’s going around… I can’t say this. He keeps replaying this clip, where I’m kissing some man’s nipple. And they made a collage of this for my birthday. It’s sick!”
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Family not supportive
She continued, “I don’t think my family’s being very supportive about this ‘great’ career.” Twinkle said that even though she was a prominent face in 90s Bollywood, she ‘didn’t enjoy it’. She said, “There’s a difference between a job and a career. I didn’t enjoy it. All I wanted to do was go back home and read books. There were times when I was sitting and knitting on set, and my spot boy would come and say, ‘Aap mat kariye, sab aunty ji bolenge’. I had to live up to this image, but I wasn’t that person.
Twinkle is an author and columnist first, then an interior designer and film producer and a former film actress in the last.
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