Why Twinkle Khanna is mad at Naseeruddin Shah

Twinkle Khanna aka Mrs Funny Bones aka Mrs Khiladi on July 23 slammed veteran actor Naseeruddin Shah after he had called her late father and "India's first superstar" Rajesh Khanna a "poor actor".

Naseeruddin was speaking about the general mediocrity of Hindi movies in the 1970s, then linked them to their flagbearer Rajesh Khanna, who according to him, was a 'poor actor'.

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Khanna died of cancer in 2012. He had received three Filmfare awards in his career.

Twinkle has developed a no-nonsense persona online and her Twitter account usually spits fire.

This time the talk was about daddy dearest, and Twinkle did what rarely happens in Bollywood: calling another actor out in public.

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Her response was playing on the fact that her father can't really respond to Naseeruddin's barb. The 42-year-old actress tweeted, "Sir if you can't respect the living, respect the dead - mediocrity is attacking a man who can't respond @NaseerudinShah."

Shots fired!

Other people joined in, most notably Karan Johar and what is a revelation, Sanjay Jha!

No one has confirmed how he was an expert in acting in the 1970s.

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