Twinkle Khanna and Akshay Kumar met as young actors (courtesy: TwinkleRKhanna)
Highlights
- Akshay is referred to in Twinkle's tweets and columns as 'Mr K'
- The 'partners in crime' married in 2001
- They have a son and daughter, named Aarav and Nitara
New Delhi:
Happy anniversary,
Twinkle Khanna and Akshay Kumar. We learnt from a hilarious tweet posted by Twinkle that she and 'Mr K' (as Akshay is referred to in her tweets and columns) have survived "16 years of trying to kill each other." They 'haven't succeeded' yet. If we may, our money's on her, despite Mr K's martial arts skills - just look at Akshay's grimace in the video clip Twinkle attached to her tweet. We dare you to not laugh.
Twinkle Khanna, 43, and Akshay Kumar, 49, met as young actors. The 'partners in crime' married in 2001 and have a son and daughter, named Aarav and Nitara. Here's the tweet Twinkle Khanna posted:
For a moment there, we forgot that it's not even midweek.
Twinkle Khanna, a former actress, has reinvented herself as a best-selling author and columnist. Her Twitter account, which she operates under the handle @MrsFunnyBones, is hugely popular and she's adored for her irreverent sense of humour. Twinkle and Akshay, who has admitted he's sometimes made nervous by her outspokenness, appeared together on filmmaker Karan Johar's chat show
Koffee With Karan last year. The couple revealed that Akshay's code for telling Twinkle to zip it are the words "Chashma pehen le."
Seems to us Twinkle Khanna rarely takes her husband's advice, on Twitter or off it.
She recently posted a wickedly funny tweet about 'monosodium glutamate' - a reference to new neighbor Gurmeet Ram Rahim, the Dera Sacha Sauda head who has starred as 'MSG' or 'Messenger of God' in a series of films. Told by a follower that should consider a political career, Twinkle summed up her own lack of a filter as:
Twinkle Khanna,
daughter of actors Rajesh Khanna and Dimple Kapadia, co-starred with Akshay Kumar in Nineties films like
International Khiladi and
Zulmi. She recently released her second book and will produce a film starring her husband this year. Akshay Kumar had a bumper 2016 with the films
Airlift,
Rustom and
Housefull 3. He has
Jolly LLB 2,
Toilet: Ek Prem Katha and
Rajinikanth's 2.0 coming up this year.