Twinkle
Khanna
to
take
LEGAL
ACTION
against
trollers
over
Akshay's
Rustam
costume
Auction
।FilmiBeat
Twinkle
Khanna
responded
to
a
message
by
an
Indian
Navy
officer,
who
warned
her
against
auctioning
a
costume
piece
worn
by
her
husband
Akshay
Kumar
in
the
film,
"Rustom",
saying
she
"will
not
retaliate
with
violent
threats
but
by
taking
legal
action".
The
author-producer
had
recently
supported
Akshay's
announcement
to
sell
off
the
"actual
naval
uniform"
he
donned
in
the
2016
film,
which
was
loosely
based
on
the
1959
Nanavati
murder
case.
Khanna
received
a
lot
of
flak
on
social
media
for
backing
the
sale,
the
proceeds
from
which
would
go
to
"the
cause
of
animal
rescue
and
welfare".
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,
asCommander
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.
Credits
-
PTI