Why Twinkle Khanna chose to marry Akshay Kumar

Brut India

"The reason you get married is primarily to have children." Twinkle Khanna shared how she investigated Akshay Kumar's family history before marrying him. She turned 51 years old today.  📹:  Disney+Hotstar

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00:00There he was, 6 feet of chocolate ice cream

00:02Says that Akshay is gay

00:04And she's told me this while we're sitting there

00:06And he's doing acupressure

00:08On my birthday, he got me a crystal paperweight

00:10A paperweight

00:12The reason you get married is primarily to have children

00:14I wanted to know what are the diseases running in his family

00:16You know

00:18At what age did uncles in his family lose their hair

00:24So this relationship of yours

00:26It started off as a fling, right?

00:28It was not something that you were taking seriously

00:30So how did it go uphill from there?

00:32No, it didn't start as a fling

00:34It did

00:36I had come on to a long term relationship

00:38And I wanted to just for the first time in my life

00:40Have a fling

00:42So I decided I'm going to have, there he was, 6 feet of chocolate ice cream

00:44So I decided that

00:46I'm going to have a fling with him

00:48And it's going to last 15 days

00:50That was my plan

00:52But why only 15 days?

00:54Because that was the outdoor

00:56Yeah, sort of

00:58And I ran out of books

01:00In Calgary

01:02And there was no TV

01:04And I was really bored

01:06And there he was

01:08So it was kind of perfect

01:10Why are you hitting me?

01:12She's saying all these things

01:14You're making her talk so many things

01:16And that was it

01:18Then I had to approach her mother

01:20And that is another whole episode

01:22What happened?

01:24So he asked my mother

01:26So he's come to ask my mother if he should marry me

01:28And my mother's friend

01:30So my mother and me are sitting together on this couch

01:32And he's sitting opposite

01:34And my mother's friend is there

01:36And he's doing some acupressure for her back or something

01:38So my mother says

01:40I have to tell you something

01:42So I said tell me, no, no, after he goes

01:44I'm like, no, no, tell me, tell me

01:46She says

01:48Just remember you're on television

01:50That's okay

01:52And then I saw a piece on some gay newspaper

01:54Says that Akshay is gay

01:56And she's told me this while we're sitting there

01:58And he's doing acupressure

02:00So I almost fainted

02:04So then did she agree?

02:06She didn't agree

02:08She said you'll live together for one year and then we'll see

02:10So we lived together for one year

02:12But when we were first dating

02:14On my birthday he got me

02:16A crystal paperweight

02:18A paperweight

02:20And I actually thought that I'd be very impressed with this paperweight

02:22Or I don't know

02:24Actually I had forgotten her birthday

02:26Let me honestly tell you

02:28I had forgotten her birthday

02:30And then I realized it was her birthday

02:32There was no time to go and buy

02:34So this paperweight was there in my house

02:36So I could clear out

02:40He gave me a paperweight

02:42So I told him at that day

02:44That one day you'll buy me a diamond as big as this bloody paperweight

02:46So I made sure

02:48It was a true triumph

02:50Before this bond was made

02:52You actually made a list of things

02:54Of his entire family tree, genetic history

02:56You went to his aunts, uncles

02:58What diseases they had, how they looked

03:00Did you actually do this?

03:02The reason you get married is primarily to have children

03:04Right

03:06Now which means that you're introducing

03:08One of the reasons

03:10No, primarily

03:12The others are companionship, whatever

03:14But primarily

03:16Family line

03:18So I wanted to know what are the diseases running

03:20In his family

03:22At what age did uncles in his family

03:24Lose their hair

03:26What did Kanchan Chachi die of

03:28So I would keep asking all this

03:30And he probably thought I'm very concerned about his family

03:32She's all the time asking what happened to Pintu Mama

03:34You know all that

03:36So I had this chart

03:38That was one chart, the genetic chart

03:40And this chart I found after my marriage

03:42On the second day

03:44No, you found another chart

03:46There was a pros and cons of marrying him also

03:48So I had all the advantages on one side

03:50And all the disadvantages

03:52There were two and they pretty much stayed the same

03:54And there were eight advantages which have stayed the same

03:56So no one can say that I didn't know

03:58What I was getting into it

04:00And I didn't hide it, it was on the bedside

04:02It wasn't like I was

04:04His family, I found out

04:06They had early balding or cancer

04:08Or heart diseases

04:10And did the family pass your litmus test

04:12Yeah, most of them kind of are still alive also

04:14Because they have healthy genes

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