By PTI
MUMBAI: Author and former Bollywood actor Twinkle Khanna is being criticised on social media for making a tongue-in-cheek comment concerning the movie “The Kashmir Files” in her Sunday column for a number one each day.
In her satirical column revealed on April 3 with the headline ‘Did Will Smith study a one-tight-slap lesson from India?’ on the stunning flip of occasions on the 2022 Oscars ceremony, Khanna additionally wrote about how she was planning to register ‘Nail Files’, a title impressed by Vivek Agnihotri’s just lately launched movie primarily based on the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from the Valley within the Nineties.
Under her nom de plume ‘Mrs Funnybones’, Khanna wrote that the potential movie ‘Nail Files’ might revolve round a “disastrous manicure”, which she stated could be “better than putting the final nail into the communal coffin”.
The movie has been known as out for its problematic politics by some critics and authors however that has not affected its field workplace assortment because the film, launched on March 11, has minted Rs 331 crore, in line with the figures given by the producers in a tweet.
The 47-year-old Khanna, who’s the daughter of prolific Hindi cinema stars Rajesh Khanna and Dimple Kapadia, was known as out on social media by customers who described her as a “shallow” Bollywood character “devoid of morals”.
Filmmaker Ashoke Pandit, a Kashmiri Pandit, appealed to the columnist to not be insensitive in the direction of the plight of the group.
Commenting on her column, Pandit tweeted Monday night, “@mrsfunnybones ma’am, you’re too late. This movie (#KashmirFiles) on the genocide of #KashmiriPandits has already hit the nail on the communal coffin of #IslamicTerrorism. Request you not be so insensitive in the direction of the genocide of seven lac #KashmiriPandits.
.@mrsfunnybones ma’am, you’re too late. This movie (#KashmirFiles) on the genocide of #KashmiriPandits has already hit the nail on the communal coffin of #IslamicTerrorism.
Request you not be so insensitive in the direction of the genocide of seven lac #KashmiriPandits . pic.twitter.com/3CMQqRm63x
— Ashoke Pandit (@ashokepandit) April 4, 2022
” Another user wrote, “She does appear daft and insensitive to say this. All the Bollywood fraternity are shallow and devoid of morals.”
Khanna’s feedback come weeks after her husband and Bollywood star Akshay Kumar congratulated “The Kashmir Files” director on the success of the movie, additionally quipping the way it affected the field workplace enterprise of his movie “Bachchhan Paandey”, which was launched on March 18.
Kumar, identified for his pro-establishment stand versus his spouse’s, had final month at an occasion stated Agnihotri has introduced a “harrowing truth to light” via his movie.
Khanna has been away from social media since Sunday after she shared the hyperlink to her column and retweeted it on her Twitter web page.
