Akshay Kuamar's Rustom Naval Uniform Row: Twinkle Khanna Responds To 'Will Give A Bloody Nose' Threat Like A Hero!

In case you are not clued in on what this controversy is all about, let us explain. It all started when Akshay Kumar and Twinkle Khanna were trolled badly on social media for announcing the auction-an online bidding for the Navy Uniform outfit/ costume from the film ‘Rustom’ for a charitable cause, the amount gathered from this endeavour would go for the animal welfare purpose.

While we understand that the Naval Uniform is earned through rigorous drills and hardship, and it definitely cannot be sold, one needs to pay attention to the fact that this uniform was specially stitched for the movie. So what Akshay and Twinkle were planning to auction was a costume, NOT the original uniform. Why there's so much fuss over a costume then? More importantly, will a high ranking official or the protector of Naval force would guard the dignity of the uniform at the expense of threatening a woman?

And now we gather that Twinkle Khanna has responded to a message by an Indian Navy officer, who warned her against auctioning the said costume. Twinkle maintains that she “will not retaliate with violent threats but by taking legal action”.

The original message, by Lt Col Sandeep Ahlawat, was shared by senior journalist Sandeep Unnithan on Twitter, who claimed the author was “one of the finest men in uniform” known to him. In a Facebook post, Lt Col Ahlawat called Khanna’s idea of auctioning the costume “as sick as your funnybones jokes/book/blog”.

He wrote what Akshay wore in the film, as Commander Rustom Pavri for which he won his maiden National Film Award for best actor, was “a costume and not uniform”. “Indian Armed Forces wives (Army, Navy, Airforce) do not auction their husbands uniforms. 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 the 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 soldier along with the tricolour,” he added.

Lt Col Ahlawat warned Khanna that he will “drag you to the court” if she even made “a feeble attempt to auction this piece of costume in the garb of ‘UNIFORM’.”“You touch our honour and we will give you a bloody nose,” he added. Khanna replied to Unnithan’s tweet, questioning whether it was plausible to “to threaten a woman with bodily harm for trying to raise funds for a charity”.

“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! #JaiHind,” she wrote.

With Inputs From PTI

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