Mrs Funnybones: She's just like You and a lot like Me

Twinkle Khanna

Aug 2015 · Penguin UK

About this ebook

Full of wit and delicious observations, Mrs Funnybones captures the life of the modern Indian woman a woman who organizes dinner each evening after having been at work all day, who runs her own life but has to listen to her mummyji, who worries about her weight and the state of the country. Based on Twinkle Khanna’s super-hit column, Mrs Funnybones marks the debut of one of our funniest, most original voices.

Ratings and reviews

My daughter advised me to read this book and I did enjoy it though I am not the type; I like serious emotional works like Anna karenina or yuval Noah Harari on evolution. For a long time I have been wanting to Express my views on her father Rajesh khanna. I did not know how to do it. He was my heart throb in those days when Aaradhana was released. I moved to live on a plantation and gave up going to theaters. But even to this day I cannot excuse Amitabh Bacchan for snatching Rajesh khanna's name and fame in ANAND. whenever there's Bacchan's movie I turn off my t.v. With all due respect to A bacchan. Twinkle's name is still Khanna! And not Kumar. Ah I like it. in my family none of us change our names after marriage. Keep it up Twinkle. Rajalakshmi

Pretty funny and relatable, my parents also insist on me drinking charged water and some company has managed to sell them a massage bed stating that it can cure diabetes and every other ailment(now they call old unclejees and auntijees and insist that they take the massage everyday)....hard to reason with them...anyway...so yea some of the anecdotes are funny and urban indians can relate but I didn't get the drive to go ahead and buy the book....EDIT : I decided to buy it anyway...👎 nope

It's a very enjoyable book. Trying to figure out a few slices of Twinkle Khanna's life, the daughter of iconic and loved fimstars, this peep in her routine leaves one with a feeling of "someone's walking along the same path". Though, somewhere in the earlier pages, the writing may have seemed like a banter that's stretched a bit much. Read it if you wish to catch yourself smiling and laughing out loud at times, in fact, several times.

About the author

Twinkle Khanna, aka Mrs Funnybones, crafts satirical stories and funny fables when she is not running a design business, selling candles or running in circles around her small but rather odd family. She narrowly escaped a gruesome tragedy when Bollywood tried to bludgeon her brain to the size of a pea, but she ducked at the right moment and escaped miraculously unharmed. She is a popular columnist and is a regular contributor to The Times of India and DNA After Hrs. Currently, she is in the process of creating lame jokes like, ‘Why do all Hindu boys worship their mother? Because their religion tells them to worship the cow.’ She firmly believes that nothing in life is sacred except laughter.