Posing off the things in auctioning post the movies or the sports events is quite common these days. Celebrities bag a million bucks for simple things that drew people’s attention. After all, most of the times, this money is used for charity purposes.
Something same was tried by Akshay Kumar with his infamous ‘Rustom’ Navy uniform, but things didn’t go too well with the actor after an Army general penned an open letter to him and his wife.
Not just that, this situation triggered a massive controversy on social media too. An Army man has written an open letter to Twinkle Khanna slamming her and Akshay for their move and also threatening to take a legal recourse.
He straight-forwardly criticized the idea of auctioning the uniform. Sandeep Ahlawat, a serving army officer, in a Facebook post said that “What Akshay wore in the movie was a costume, not uniform Indian Armed forces’ wives do not auction their husbands’ uniforms”.
Check out his Facebook post here:
Post this statement made him, Akshay Kumar’s wife Twinkle Khanna has come forward defending her husband. Reacting to the post, Twinkle dubbed the post as violent and retaliated saying she will respond by taking legal action.
Here’s her reply:
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 https://t.co/OF7e5lTHel
— Twinkle Khanna (@mrsfunnybones) April 29, 2018
The idea of auctioning the uniform came to the public after Akshay Kumar took to Twitter to announce the same. The bidding is for raising money for an NGO Janice’s Trust which works for animal rescue. Akshay’s wife Twinkle Khanna also shared the news on all her social media.
However, even as most of the social media users hailed the move, a section of netizens was not very happy with the move. The auction move did not go down well with some social media users as they are of the opinion that it’s an insult to the defense fraternity because their uniform is too priceless to be auctioned off.