Trolled for Proposed Auction of ‘Rustom Uniform’, Twinkle Responds

Akshay Kumar & Twinkle Khanna faced backlash for announcing the auction of the naval ‘uniform’ from ‘Rustom’.

Twinkle Khanna put up Akshay Kumar’s uniform from the film ‘Rustom’ for auction. 

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While actor Akshay Kumar bagged a National Award for his performance in the film Rustom, the fact that the actor and Twinkle Khanna, producer, author and Kumar’s wife have decided to auction the costume that they have referred to as ‘uniform’ and the one that he wore in the film to raise money for their NGO, has not gone down too well with netizens.

This is not the first time that the costume that Kumar wore in the film has been in the limelight. When the film released, it was the inaccuracies in the said uniform that had drawn the ire of the internet.

“Uniform is not a piece of cloth that a producer hands over to cinestars for enacting roles and make some quick bucks. The permission to wear Uniform comes from the office of the President of India. Uniform is earned with your blood, toil and sweat which is placed on the mortal remains of a soldiers along with the tricolour.”

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Twinkle Khanna retaliated with a tweet that condemned the violent threat in the post and said that she would be initiating legal action.

As a society, do we really think it’s all right to threaten a woman with bodily harm for trying to raise funds for a charity by auctioning a uniform used in a movie, a piece of film memorabilia ? I will not retaliate with violent threats but by taking legal action!

Twinkle Khanna, Producer/Author

Akshay Kumar, too, is at the receiving end of enormous backlash as he posted the bidding link on Twitter.

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