Karan Johar hosted the book launch of Pyjamas are Forgiving which is Twinkle Khanna\u2019s latest book. At the event Bollywood actors Sonam Kapoor and Ranveer Singh read passages from the book. Khanna\u2019s husband, actor Akshay Kumar and mother, Dimple Kapadia were also present to support her on her big day.<\/p>\n
Here, Karan Johar called Twinkle a feminist icon as she has spoken extensively about the same. On being called a feminist icon, Twinkle suggested that being an icon is like being in a tricky situation. She said, \u201cI am definitely a feminist, but I find the word icon itself slightly troublesome. Anyone who is put on a pedestal is in a dangerous position because these are very narrow elevated spaces. One little dance, one drink and off you fall. So I am not any kind of an icon. I just do my work, and walk ahead quietly.\u201d<\/p>\n
Johar, who has also read the book, asked Twinkle if she wrote the book keeping in mind that it could become a mainstream movie or digital content one day \u201cas it has all the prerequisites like an amazing development of characters, it has a fast speedy narrative, it also has an interval point, a midpoint, for the same.\u201d<\/p>\n
To this, Twinkle said, \u201cNo, I don\u2019t really write to turn my books into movies. Salaam Noni Appa became a play, but that just happened. When I wrote Muruganantham\u2019s story, we were very clear that this was something very urgent and really had to be made into a movie as people had to see it. So Balki wrote that beautifully and made that movie. I don\u2019t think there is an end goal that everything has to become cinema. I am happy if it remains a book that people read and like.\u201d<\/p>\n
The actor-turned-author then also spoke about how she was affected by the #MeToo movement, and how it holds a special place in this book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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