Twinkle Khanna’s ‘joke’ on Sri Sri creates furore on Twitter, AOL member threatens to boycott Akshay Kumar’s ‘Housefull 3’

Twinkle Khanna’s ‘joke’ on Art of Living founder Sri Sri Ravishankar triggered an ugly verbal spat on Twitter.

Mumbai: Once again, Twinkle Khanna has found herself in the middle of a controversy after ‘joking’ about Art of Living founder Sri Sri Ravishankar. The former actress, who is now a columnist/author, has displayed her witty side a number of times. But this time, her humour triggered uproar on social media and she was apparently forced to delete her tweet.

Twinkle had apparently tweeted, “Sri Sri got his noble foot and half his beard stuck in his mouth in a yogic pose that Baba Ramdev perfected a while ago.” #HolyMenandHairyTales.”

In response to Twinkle’s tweet, Darshak Hathi, the International Director of AOL, who was visibly hurt and charged with emotions tweeted:

“Millions of followers r going 2 boycott #Houseful3 4 hurting the sentiments by inappropriate and ill intended comments f @mrsfunnybones on Sri Sri.”

Twinkle was prompt enough in clarifying her stance by saying she never intended to hurt anyone’s sentiments. But Hathi’s intimidation miffed her.

Didn't mean to hurt anyone's feelings was meant to be a joke and am old enough to accept an error of judgement on my part.

— Twinkle Khanna (@mrsfunnybones) 7 May 2016

Hathi tweeted: “Error of Judgement or Fear of #BoycottHousefull3. Anyway Being Old & Being wise is different thing."

@mrsfunnybones My tweet was in respond to your tweet which has hurt my sentiments. I appreciate that you have gracefully deleted it.

— Darshak Hathi (@DarshakHathi) 8 May 2016

Art of living teacher practising Art of intimidation? Didn't like my joke diss me-drag my husband,boycott etc #Shame https://t.co/yFdz8bKHJo

— Twinkle Khanna (@mrsfunnybones) 8 May 2016

@mrsfunnybones It happens when sentiments are hurt. No Hard feeling. Sorry if you r hurt.

— Darshak Hathi (@DarshakHathi) 8 May 2016

The spiritual guru had recently made headlines for reportedly saying, “I am totally against honouring Malala Yousafzai with the prize and it is of no use.” However, the AOL issued a statement on Twitter to clarify that Sri Sri was misquoted.