Twinkle Khanna, the daughter of superstar, Rajesh Khanna and veteran actress, Dimple Kapadia, made her debut in Bollywood with a lot of noise. However, she couldn’t make it big in the film industry and stopped working on the films after a couple of flops. Unlike some other actors who are shy to accept their failures, Twinkle often claimed that acting wasn’t for her and she lost interest in it. Instead, she stepped into writing and become one of the best-selling authors in the country, known for writing books like Mrs Funnybones, The Legend of Lakshmi Prasad, Pyjamas Are Forgiving and more. In a recent interview, the actress-turned-author shared how it was her mother who forced her to take up acting and how she once confronted her for the same.
Twinkle Khanna reveals she didn’t step into Bollywood due to her wishes
Twinkle Khanna recently sat down for a conversation with Divya Jain, where she recalled her brief acting career. She shared that she didn’t step into Bollywood due to her wishes entirely. Instead, she had applied for the CA entrance exam, but her mother convinced her otherwise. Consequently, moved by familial expectations, she made her debut in Barsaat opposite Bobby Deol in 1995. Sharing her views, Twinkle said:
“Like many people here, I’m sure, whatever their parents did… if they had a mithai shop, you became a mithaiwala. It was as simple as that. My parents were very keen, and my mother was very keen. I had applied for my CA entrance exam because that’s what I wanted to do, strangely. And my mother told me, ‘This is the only time that you can become an actress, and later you can do what you like.'”
