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

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The ladies are curvy, sometimes fat and not perfect, once again trying to win the readers through connection. When you are married for a certain period of time, you’ve heard the themes of each chapter be it a crib about forced fast in the name of your longevity or captured in a FB post in your least flattering dress or how the man of the house is sometimes as useful as a coin collection. They'd soon acknowledge work coming from a celebrity and turn the author into a bestseller overnight. But that is what makes this book a conversation and not yet another insider account of a glamorous life, a tell-all about how showbiz people are the worst, or, worst of all, a sanctimonious “how-to-have-it-all” guide. Funnybones’, who takes her life one day and one incident at a time, and whose goal of amusing herself often even ends up amusing others.

Some of the jokes were not so original, you can predict ends of sentences; and the repeated use of the word 'blimey' didn't lend to the funniness either, though I do understand how she meant to use it at the end of every little mishap that happened on her day. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. While she hasn’t become a typical Bollywood homemaker, she isn’t strutting around all over Page 3 in her Manolos either. As my mouth falls open and before I can protest, he continues, ‘Arrey, he’s married to Rajesh Khanna’s daughter, na, and Dimple Kapadia is there but the daughter doesn’t have anything to do with the mother; especially now that she is the only heir.While her writing quality isn't out of the ordinary, the messages she conveys are totally identifiable, if you're a married Indian woman with/without kids today.

At an art exhibition recently, two patrons got into a fierce debate over the impact of artificial intelligence. But there isn’t a lot of depth to remember the book by, and maybe because my world is so different from hers, as would be of most people who read it, I don’t find that connect that makes me go, oh yes!The bits I really liked though were her advice to her son about knowing when it is time to give up, her take on women's empowerment and her thoughts on the whole unbuttoning jeans scandal. So it got me thinking, had this book been written by a not so famous person would it still be so well received? Establishing early on that she’s done with her acting life that comes from her husband, the superstar, Akhsay Kumar saying, “You can’t act” and her agreeing to it, Twinkle has donned the role of a modern wife, who works in her swanky office, takes care of her kids (one of whom is still in diapers) and vacations abroad every June. The additional commentary at the beginning of each chapter in the form of scribbles on a notepad are funny reading.