Last year, Akshay Kumar won a lot of admirers for Toilet - Ek Prem Katha and his social initiative of building toilets in villages as a campaign to promote the cause of the movie. But in a amusing twist of fate, his wife and author Twinkle Khanna, who is known for her outspoken attitude, found herself at the receiving end of trolls and insults when she posted a picture of a man defecating on the Juhu beach, Mumbai after the movie came out. Calling the picture as a sequel to Toilet, Twinkle Khanna had posted the picture in the intention of trolling the man, but got trolled instead as people called her privileged for making jokes on poor who can't own private toilets of their own.
Now in a move that many called as a real sequel to his Toilet - Ek Prem Katha campaign, Akshay Kumar has funded Rs 10 lakhs to build two bio-toilets in the Juhu beach for the poor and the not-so-privileged. This will help keep the popular hangout of the city clean as well as do some damage control to Twinkle's tweet.
The social project was done in collaboration with Shiv Sena leader Aaditya Thackeray, who had gone on Twitter to praise the actor for his efforts.
Tweeps, @akshaykumar ji & I have made a small contribution to our dear city. We chose to add privately to the efforts of the BMC by making a public toilet in Juhu, handed it over to the BMC now. Small contribution but just the beginning! (1/2) pic.twitter.com/WYuEneAJRu
— Aaditya Thackeray (@AUThackeray) April 3, 2018
I’m very very thankful to @akshaykumar ji for being such an ever inspiring friend & a real life hero in contributing to the society. Free self defence classes for women (more than 15k girls trained till date), our mission of fitting 100 sanitary pad machines & now this! pic.twitter.com/tBbvUR2ds1
— Aaditya Thackeray (@AUThackeray) April 3, 2018
There’s so much he does for all anyway, I’m glad to always have an opportunity to team up with him for good. @akshaykumar
— Aaditya Thackeray (@AUThackeray) April 3, 2018
Even wifey Twinkle agrees that Akshay's big heart surely matched her big mouth (perhaps in reference to her tweet). She wrote,
I don’t know if we are a perfect match but his big heart does match my big mouth :) Thank you @AUThackeray for making this possible! #WalkTheWalk https://t.co/gejfpv9NGQ
— Twinkle Khanna (@mrsfunnybones) April 3, 2018
Not only has Akshay Kumar proved to be a good husband once again, this act has reiterated that he is a man with a golden heart too!
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