This Article is From Jun 08, 2016

Rahul Khanna Trends on Twitter. We Think We Know Why

Rahul Khanna Trends on Twitter. We Think We Know Why

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Highlights

  • Rahul Khanna is the son of Vinod Khanna and brother of Akshaye
  • For a while nobody knew why was Rahul Khanna trending
  • Rahul Khanna was last seen in 2013 film Fireflies.
New Delhi: Actor Rahul Khanna, son of Vinod Khanna and brother of Akshaye, was a Twitter trend on Wednesday and for a while, nobody knew why.

This was the general sentiment:
 
 

Careful study of tweets referring to him indicated that Mr Khanna was trending because at some point in his social media life, he was in the habit of replying to direct messages or DMs received.

For instance, he received and accepted a wedding proposal in 2013:
 

This DM was resurrected on Wednesday:
 

It appears that DMs from Rahul Khanna are still in demand in 2016:
 

And apparently folks are being a little unreasonable:
 

Some on Twitter claimed to be clueless not only about why Mr Khanna was trending but also about his identity:
 
 

To those of you asking 'who?' - you know who you are - there's this:
 

As the tweet above points out, Rahul Khanna, 43, is the star of films such as 1947 Earth, Love Aaj Kal and Bollywood/Hollywood. He is active on social media and recently caused something of a flutter by joining Snapchat last month.

Rahul Khanna was last seen in 2013 film Fireflies.
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