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I wish my job was just about shopping,’ actorturnedentrepreneur Twinkle Khanna tells Rubina A Khan

Daughter of Dimple Kapadia and Rajesh Khanna. Film pedigree par excellence. She too followed in her famous parents’ footsteps and became an actor. Only to fall in love with actor Akshay Kumar and chuck it all up for matrimonial bliss. Now, she’s an entrepreneur with her own lifestyle stores, and a new one that opened on Dassera day in Bandra.
Will she make a comeback to cinema a la her contemporaries? “No, I don’t want to come back to cinema simply because I’m happier designing spaces and with my lifestyle stores. I have found what I can see myself doing for a long, long time, unlike movies which, after a point, I couldn’t see myself doing for the rest of my life,” says Twinkle.
How does she manage a flourishing business along with a three-year-old and husband Akshay? “It’s not tough to manage a child, husband and work, if you have the support of your family, and when both partners pitch in equally in raising the child, which is the case with us,” she says. Akshay is always mired in ‘hearty’ controversies... Does it bother her at all and how does she cope with it? “It’s called showbiz! I have seen it since I was a baby and it has never bothered me,” she laughs. Does she like the outdoors and the martial arts like Akshay or...? “Well, we both like the outdoors and are total beach people, so a vacation for us is pretty incomplete without the sun and the sand. We go hiking on weekends and stuff too and it’s fun,” she adds. How does Aarav react when he sees Dimple and Rajesh Khanna on the telly? “Aarav doesn’t really say anything about that, I guess, he thinks everyone sees their family on TV too!” says the hands-on mother. Her mother is like the most glam grandmom ever! What does she have to say to that? “That my mother is, but more than that, she is the kindest human being on this planet,” insists Twinkle.
Well, she doesn’t look half as bad either, always radiant and well turned out. She laughs and says, “In fact, I think I’m a tomboy, so grooming is something which is an effort for me. But one thing that I do everyday is yoga, which really helps me with both, my body and my mind.”
What does she plan to do from here on? What are her future business plans? “Well, apart from my new store, I’ve just won my first award in design, and am working on my first international interior design project. So, it’s a very exciting and challenging time in my career, and I hope things just go on this way,” she says.
Twinkle is one lucky lady — doing what women love best... shopping and helping others shop! Amidst peals of laughter, she says, “I wish my job was just about shopping! But I do love that part of it. I also love gardening and I read a lot, especially science fiction. I love spending time with family and friends and travelling to new places. I want to go back-packing across Europe some day soon