Bollywood’s powerful couple Akshay Kumar and
Twinkle Khanna have teamed for their forthcoming project, PadMan. The movie is
a biopic of Arunachalam Muruganantham, a small town entrepreneur from Tamil
Nadu who invented low-cost sanitary napkins to generate awareness in rural
areas.
Crediting his wife Twinkle for his
sartorial sense, Akshay said a famous daily, "My mother-in-law [veteran
actress Dimple Kapadia] is a style icon and wouldn't have me any other way. I
have no option but match up to the ladies in the family. When my house was
being made, my only contribution was to say nothing. And it looks pretty damn
good. The same way, when she tells me what to wear, whether it's by bullying or
not, I just follow her instructions."
Is Twinkle as a producer takes a call for
every shot in PadMan? Well, then the answer is No. As per Akshay, the film sets
would be the last place that she would want to be at. Akshay told, "She
hardly comes for the shoot. She is allowing the director [R Balki] to take
charge of the material exactly they way he wants. Since she was a part of the
industry and has seen her parents at work, a film set is the last place she
wants to be. She hates it."
But that doesn't mean that Twinkle isn't
a perfect one for taking the duty of being a producer. Explaining it, Akshay told,
"When the script was in the works, she was clued in to every step of
research. But if my wife wasn't producing the film, I'd have still done the
film."
Akshay further added, "I am not here
to make a documentary. Of course, we won't preach, but what we have to say has
been done carefully, with slight humour, subtlety and maturity that the subject
demands."
Speaking about his next project, he told he won't be sharing
screen space with Salman Khan. Explaining his statement, he told,
"Yes, it's true that Salman is just producing the film and I am acting in
it. It'd have been great to share screen space with him, but that's not what
the script requires.”
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