My acting hasn't improved with age: Twinkle Khanna

Actress/columnist Twinkle Khanna talks about her acting career, her life as a celebrity wife and her kids.

Now that you’re a columnist, do deadlines scare you?

I like deadlines. Even though it’s tough to find new ideas every week, I enjoy the challenge.

What does “the prodigal son” think of the book – and about that tag?

“The man of the house” [Akshay] and “the prodigal son” [Aarav] rather enjoy the slightly exaggerated caricatures of them that I present to the world.

Aamir Khan said you’re good at “insulting people”. What’s the worst insult you’ve ever doled out?

I don’t dole out insults, I make a few lame jokes and sometimes people get offended. Then I spend days feeling terrible about having this foot-in-the-mouth disease.

If you could use this space to apologise to one person, it would be...

My children. I say all sorts of inappropriate things to them.

You’ve admitted that you can’t act. What’s with the self-deprecation?

A film you cannot believe you did.

I wish I hadn’t done a single one.

If you’d left it to your mum to name your kids, what do you think Aarav and Nitara would be called?

We never ask my mom for names!

The best thing about being a star kid, a celebrity and a celebrity wife.

People already have very fixed notions about you without ever meeting you.

Your thoughts on, “Life begins at 40”.

I thought menopause began at 40.

The craziest thing about doing the interiors of celebrity homes.

I once had to change a large bathroom mirror thrice, because that particular actor felt that the reflection was warped and was either looking too fat or too thin.

If you’d been a regular girl without any connection to Bollywood, what do you think you’d have ended up doing?

I would be five kilos heavier, and probably equally happy going to an office and preparing audit reports.

Your favourite book.

I like science fiction, so a lot of Asimov, Neil Gaiman and Ken Liu. I like living in the future more than in the past. I like Wodehouse and Rohinton Mistry, too.

The rudest, funniest motherly thing your mum’s ever said to you.

She decided to tell a doyen of society about a song that I had made up years ago. It was about gas and farts; my mother seems to look for opportunities to embarrass me.

Define your sister Rinke Khanna in one sentence.

She is just like me on the inside. (She needs an entire book all to herself with all her idiosyncrasies!)

From HT Brunch, September 13
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