Mar 31, 2009: Akshay Kumar is one of the few actors from Bollywood who know well how to remain in public eye all the time and his recent stunt only underlines the fact.
Walking for designer Tarun Tahiliani at Lakme Fashion Week on ramp to promote Levi’s jeans recently, Akshay surprised everybody present at the show by making his wife Twinkle to unzip his pant.
Setting the ramp on fire, the Singh is Kinng star Akshay stopped before Twinkle and asked her to unbutton his jeans.
The erstwhile actress went blushing and then shrunk a bit. However, Akshay pursued her to do the act, leaving eyes of the spectators popped up.
Khiladi star Akshay was reportedly paid Rs 1.2 crore to do the act.
Film star Akshay Kumar was arrested on Monday (May 18) morning by the police in Mumbai in connection with obscene behaviour in public during the recent Lakme India Fashion Week (LIFW), a senior police official said.
"We arrested him under Indian Penal Code Section 294, which deals with obscenity in public. Since it is a bailable offence, he was released on bail," said Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP), Arvind Mahabadhi.
During the LIFW in early April, while walking the ramp for Levi’s, Akshay had walked up to his wife Twinkle, who was sitting in the front row, and got her to unbutton his jeans.
Akshay’s unbuttoning act had kicked up a storm with some private individuals lodging police complaints, accusing Akshay of immoral and indecent behaviour in public.
Akshay had been away from India since that incident and has just returned to Mumbai today after the long schedule abroad.
ACP Mahabadhi said that now the case would be further investigated and depending on the outcome, a charge-sheet would be filed against the star.
Another controversy that Akki has landed into is over a dialogue in the film “Kambakkht Ishq”.
In one of the scenes he says “women are good only for one thing”.
There has been a huge objection to this from social groups who say the statement is highly obscene and disrespectful of women.
Akshay has clarified that his character in the film is of a bad man who has no respect for women, so the dialogue has been penned accordingly.
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A not-so-amused Akshay, who’s back in Mumbai after a month and a half of shooting abroad, says, “No, I wasn’t arrested. On returning to Mumbai, I thought I’d clear up this mess that was created while I was away. So, I personally went to the police station to finish some paperwork, wish them all a good morning and leave with my dignity intact.
I wasn’t captured, I didn’t surrender, there was nothing heroic about it (unlike what people think). It was a simple formal meeting to show that no matter how ridiculous the cause may be, one must be a gentleman and clear one’s name. That’s all that happened on Monday. There were no handcuffs, just handshakes.”
But what does he make of the whole unbuttoning episode? “None of this was necessary. Those who were genuinely offended by my wife unbuttoning the top button of my jeans, shouldn’t own or watch a TV. If something as small as that could cause them so much heartache, they surely must be in constant fear of changing the channel – what if a topless shot of an actor or something springs up on screen? Such incidents only show our people in a poor light,” he retorts.
Are india ko kya ho geya hai.. Twinkle ji akhsay ki wife hai.. wo uske saath jo marji kare.. agar logo ko bura lagta hai to woh matt dekhen. Ab movies mein to sab kuch dikha dete hai ke kaise orgasam hota hai.. to sala button kholne mein kya problem hai..????