Akshay Kumar's Questioning At Twinkle Khanna's Book Launch Event

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Let's watch the video to explore the inside of the actress's new book, featuring five short stories, and discover what Akshay Kumar asked the author.

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00:43 Yes, Akshay, please.

00:45 Can I ask a question?

00:46 Yes, yes.

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00:50 So, [INAUDIBLE]

00:53 And so all the main characters are all women.

01:03 So I just want to know whether men are irrelevant--

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01:09 In your scheme of things.

01:11 Is dessert irrelevant?

01:14 No.

01:15 You need dessert, right, to be happy.

01:17 So men are important for us to enjoy ourselves and indulge.

01:21 And I think that a lot of this, what I could do,

01:27 including going to study, I would not

01:30 be able to do if he hadn't supported me the way he has.

01:33 And I would have still done it, but it would have been very difficult.

01:36 So he was always there.

01:38 He said, you want to do this?

01:39 Fine.

01:40 You do it.

01:41 And he didn't complain.

01:42 He didn't say, you're taking my daughter or whatever.

01:44 But he did get angry once, very angry, actually.

01:48 Because wherever I go, stories follow me.

01:51 So I was in a building, and I realized

01:53 that the person living in that building

01:55 was somebody who'd been arrested by the FBI for doing

01:59 a thing called a Vatican scam.

02:01 And then I got fascinated, and I started

02:04 wanting to chase him and get a story out of it.

02:07 And I then got another neighbor who said that he was going to help me.

02:11 And he made this plan to take a bottle of wine and knock on his door.

02:14 And this was going on, and I kept telling Akshay.

02:16 Until this friend told me, I helped a journalist who was investigating

02:20 the Russians in a visa scam.

02:22 And he got a great story.

02:23 They cut off his little finger, but he got a great story.

02:25 And then Akshay had a fit.

02:27 And he said, I'm not letting you do this.

02:29 You're living alone with my kid.

02:30 So that was the only time.

02:31 So he stops me if I'm just about to fall off the cliff.

02:36 So then he's kind of there.

02:37 I don't know, maybe he hopes I fall off the cliff,

02:39 then he can get married again.

02:40 I'm not so sure.

02:41 Thank you, Akshay.

02:42 Very good.

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02:46 Yes?

02:48 My daughter's here.

02:50 And I think most of this book I wrote at 4.35 in the morning in the dark

02:56 when she was sleeping next to me.

02:58 And there is a line in the book where Goma looks at her daughter

03:02 and says that her daughter-- she doesn't know if her daughter is

03:05 beautiful or not, but when she looks at her,

03:07 she feels the same way when she looks at majestic objects like the Arj Mahal

03:12 and the Golden Temple.

03:14 And I think I felt like that about my child.

03:16 So the one thing I can say about being a mother is the fact that you have

03:21 to really carve out that time and protect that time,

03:24 because children invariably look at-- when you're working,

03:27 they will come to you.

03:28 And another place when they want you is when you're in the bathroom.

03:32 So these two places, whenever they see that you're at your desk

03:34 or the bathroom, they keep calling out to you.

03:37 So I think sometimes you feel that you're being a little selfish,

03:40 but then if you do accomplish something,

03:42 then you're also setting yourself up to be a role model for these young girls.

03:45 And hopefully you feel a little less guilty like that.

03:48 That's all I can say.

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04:27 I mean, definitely your stories will have the truth.

04:29 But the truth, I would say, in a very simple analogy, is like a potato.

04:33 You can make aloo jeera, you can make French fries.

04:35 But the chemical composition of that truth does not change.

04:38 So is the truth present in my stories?

04:41 Yes.

04:42 Will you be able to recognize it?

04:43 No.

04:44 And I'm not going to tell you which parts are true, obviously.

04:46 Otherwise, I would have written a memo of it.

04:48 And my mother would have killed me.

04:50 That's another reason.

04:51 Thank you.

04:52 Thank you, sir.

04:53 Farah, if I'm honest, my first ambition was to grow up and be Farah.

04:56 So that is what I wanted to be.

04:58 I ran away once to Delhi, because Farah was in Delhi.

05:01 And I don't know if that's a good thing or not,

05:04 but I didn't achieve that ambition.

05:06 So I didn't turn into Farah.

05:09 I was always a reader, but I never wanted to become a writer.

05:12 I wanted to become a charted accountant.

05:14 So I wanted to be basically Bimal Parikh and have glasses and look at numbers.

05:18 But life took me in a different direction.

05:22 I was always a reader.

05:23 And I'd written half a book when I was about 18, 19.

05:27 And my mother is here.

05:29 So she has a floppy disk of this book.

05:33 And when I tell her now that, Mom, why did you encourage me?

05:35 When I would show her my work, she'd say, but you're missing dance classes

05:38 or go and thread your mustache or things like this.

05:41 But now when I tell her this, she's saying, it's the right thing,

05:47 because you could be an actress at that age.

05:49 And if suppose you were successful, then what you would be doing now?

05:52 So basically, she's trying to make me feel better by saying that

05:56 I set you up for failure so that now you're doing well.

05:59 On that note, thank you, ladies and gentlemen.

06:04 And give it up to Twinkle.

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06:10 Literally, her return to paradise goes for every author paradise is home.

06:15 And we're glad to have another book that's going to hit all the charts.

06:20 You are immensely talented, my love.

06:23 And I hope that you grow from strength to strength.

06:26 And may the force of creation always be with you.

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