Reactions: Twinkle Khanna’s joke on Sri Sri Ravi Shankar backfires, gets trolled and deletes tweet

Art of Living founder Sri Sri Ravi Shankar made headlines last week after he said that Malala Yousefzai did not deserve her Nobel Peace Prize. Following which the spiritual leader received flak. One of the people who took a jab at him on Twitter was Mrs. Funny Bones author Twinkle Khanna.

However, the newspaper columnist’s joke did not go well with arduous followers of Sri Sri who attacked her on the micro-blogging site and threatened to boycott her husband Akshay Kumar’s upcoming movie Housefull 3. She deleted the tweet. and apologized for the joke.

Here’s Khanna’s tweet that started it all:

This elicited a strong response from Darshak Hathi, the International Director of AOL who tweeted, “Error of Judgement or Fear of #BoycottHousefull3. Anyway Being Old & Being wise is different thing.” However, he soon deleted the tweet.

Twinkle Khanna was quick to reply with:

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) May 8, 2016

After this Hathi mellowed down and replied:

@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) May 8, 2016

Twitter was abuzz with the incident. Here are few tweets by the intimidating trolls:

#BoycottHousefull3 – So Why Not Boycott #Housefull3 Too?! She Insulted Hindu Guru, And supported Pakistani Malala Of A Terrorist Country!

— HINDU JAGARAN SANGHA (@HinduJagoran) May 8, 2016

@mrsfunnybones darling is it fear of #boycotthousefull3 ?? Anyways we are going to boycott now. How dare u used such tweet for Gurudev

— Rudresh Kumar Singh (@rudresh09) May 8, 2016

@mrsfunnybones start meditating and #GetWellSoon #BoycottHousefull3

— Tanvi Madan (@TanviMadan93) May 7, 2016

@mrsfunnybones shd nt hv made fun of respected #Spiritual #Guru @SriSri
bt tardy Sorry wont help #BoycottHousefull3https://t.co/fW3t7v8Y2Z

— Hunting_Hunters (@eparitosh) May 9, 2016

This is too much…if u have guts tell any thing about Muslims Dharma Guru’s #BoycottHousefull3

— Banty (@VijayTheRock) May 9, 2016

The former actress put an end to the matter by tweeting:

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) May 7, 2016