Akshay Kumar vs Mallika Dua: Twinkle Khanna Apologises for Comment

I strongly believe in equality, she writes.

Twinkle Khanna thinks better of her comments made on the Akshay Kumar-Mallika Dua controversy. 

(Photo: Yogen Shah)

Twinkle Khanna has been facing considerable backlash on social media post her controversial response to the Akshay Kumar-Mallika Dua controversy. And now, in a long Facebook post, Mrs Funnybones has apologised for appearing to NOT champion equal rights.

Also read: Dear Mrs Funnybones, What About the Language of Empathy Over Wit?

Twinkle writes that hers was a purely emotional response, reeling as she was from constant attack on her loved ones. She apologised to those who felt she was trivialising the cause of feminism because she strongly believes in equal rights.

“As I reflect on my actions this past week, I realize that I got pulled into this debate not as a social commentator but as a wife and unlike my normal, slightly rational self, my reaction was purely emotional and without perspective, and I have been rather miserable about it ever since.I would like to apologize to everyone who felt that I was trivializing the cause of feminism especially because I strongly believe in equality and have been a feminist from the time I was a young woman, much before I even knew the term.”

“I think this came at a point where I was already reeling from an onslaught of abuse against various members of my family, which started with vicious and personal comments about my mother and went on to a widely shared open letter where the writer as a comeback for my comments about Karva Chauth tried to fling muck at every single member of my family. So when in this latest episode regarding my husband, my five-year-old was also dragged in for something that she had absolutely nothing to do with, I reached breaking point.”

“And with my protective instincts in overdrive, I reacted irrationally with the only tools I have that help me retain my sanity in this fishbowl existence -words and lame jokes -though they have got me into trouble often enough in the past as well.Once while embroiled in an earlier controversy (the story of my life it seems), I had written that a wise woman keeps her hands firmly in her pockets and does not accidentally unzip anything including her mouth. I am not this woman clearly, but I am going to try to be a little wiser from now on.”

See Twinkle’s FB post here:

For the uninitiated, Akshay Kumar, on the sets of The Great Indian Laughter Challenge, told co-judge Mallika Dua: “Mallikaji, aap bell bajao, main aapko bajata hoon”.

It did not sit well with Mallika or her father, Vinod Dua. But, columnist and author, Twinkle Khanna felt that the comment needed to be taken in the “right context”.

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