‘Are men irrelevant?’: Akshay Kumar’s question stumps Twinkle Khanna, she compares them to ‘dessert’

Twinkle Khanna also responded to a man questioning, 'Can we call women "a dessert" and get away with it?'.

Bengaluru | Updated: December 17, 2023 10:18 PM IST

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Twinkle Khanna shared a clip from her recent book launch event when Akshay Kumar asked if men are ‘irrelevant’.

Twinkle Khanna recently shared a video from the launch of her new book, titled Welcome To Paradise. At the launch, her actor-husband Akshay Kumar managed to put her in a spot, but she managed to give a witty response and also shared a sweet note for him. At the event, Akshay asked her if men are ‘irrelevant’ as the lead characters of Twinkle’s book are women.

On Saturday, Twinkle shared a glimpse of the segment from the event where Akshay Kumar can be heard asking her, “All the main characters are all women. So I just want to know whether men are irrelevant?” The question did leave people at the event laughing, and after thinking a bit Twinkle described men as dessert.

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Twinkle said, “No, you need dessert right? To be happy. So men are important for us to enjoy ourselves and indulge. And I think that a lot of this that I could do is including going to study. I would not been able to do it if he didn’t hadn’t supported me the way he has.”

Twinkle recently completed her Masters in Fiction Writing at the prestigious Goldsmiths, University of London. She had shifted to London with her daughter Nitara for some time as she enrolled herself for the course.

Sharing the video, the former actor Twinkle wrote on Instagram, “At the book launch he stumped me with this question about Welcome to Paradise and my brain had to do a few cartwheels to come up with a suitable answer. What answer would you have given if you were in my place? While reading the book did you feel that men were irrelevant.”

While many users praised Twinkle for her witty answer, one was disappointed about Twinkle calling men ‘dessert.’ and wrote in the comment section on Instagram, “Can we call women “a dessert” and get away with it?” Twinkle Khanna replied by writing, “You can’t but you can blame centuries of patriarchy for your current predicament (smiley face) humour is always about punching up and not down.”