close
Choose your channels

AIB Roast Row: Twinkle Khanna fiery column gets a salute

Tuesday, February 17, 2015 • Tamil Comments
Listen to article
--:-- / --:--
1x
This is a beta feature and we would love to hear your feedback?
Send us your feedback to audioarticles@vaarta.com

Funny Bones - Twinkle Khanna has done it again. After her smart comments on 1,900 crore Satdar Patel statue considering the fact that only 10% of our children have access to education beyond higher secondary schooling. Akshay Kumar`s wife, actress, interior designer and now a writer Twinkle Khanna has given her reaction to the AIB Roast` Row in a column posted in Times Of India.

Twinkle Khanna who tweets with her pseudo name MrsFunnyBones, got great support from Bollywood celebrities on her column. Actresses Sonakshi Sinha, Priyanka Chopra, Parineeti Chopra, Anushka Sharma, Arjun Kapoor, and husband Akshay Kumar were few of the celebs that went gaga over Twinkle`s column.

Here are some of the reactions

Arjun Kapoor and Sonakshi Sinha who were present at the AIB Roast stated, "@mrsfunnybones @timesofindia Please run for office...genius and genuine..." "STANDING OVATION!" respectively.

While sisters Priyanka and Parineeti Chopra expressed their consent by calling Twinkle`s work "Such imperative questions" and "This is what needs to #BreakTheInternet!! SALUTE!" Hubby Akshay took to his Twitter account to know his fans opinion on Twinkle`s blog. Akshay Kumar tweeted, "While u are busy watching the #IndoVsPak match,here`s something 2 chew on in d break,let me know if u agree/disagree?"

Wondering what the questions our dear Mrs Funny Bones urf Twinkle Khanna has asked in her blog

Here are some excerpts

If I had to be offended by a live show I would rather be offended by Arnab who invites people on his show and then doesn`t let them speak. I saw an episode where he is asking the education minister a question and then screaming over her answers. Now that`s just bad manners. At least in the AIB roast they called guests over, let them say their bit, people laughed and went home. But we still have to get outraged even though they had made it clear that the show is for adults only.

We now also have an assortment of people up in arms about the gags made on a person`s sexuality but shouldn`t we be more offended by the fact that homosexuality is considered illegal in India and that Section 377 still exists?

The jokes about dark skin offend us because deep down, some of us idiotically think that having dark skin is a shortcoming. Would we be as offended if jokes were made about having fair skin like, You are so fair that you were thrown out of the Nirma washing powder commercial for being whiter than the washed shirt.`?

Yes, I wish the AIB had made astute, layered gags and jibes but to be so offended as to lynch them over a bunch of wisecracks?

Shouldn`t we save our strength to protest against things that really matter - like gangs of men still killing and raping women as they did again in Rohtak; that we spend $38.35 billion on warfare but are slashing our health care budget by 20% despite being a country whose public spending on health is already among the lowest in the world; that a bunch of us have been called haramzade` on a political platform from a member of the party that governs us and not from a standup comedian but no FIR is filed against the politician but is filed against the AIB comedians instead.

Follow us on Google News and stay updated with the latest!