Toilet: Ek Prem Katha impact, Salma Hayek and United Nations convey wishes to Akshay Kumar

Akshay Kumar has received good wishes for his latest release Toilet: Ek Prem Katha from a rather unexpected quarter. 

Hollywood diva Salma Hayek Hayek on Saturday took to Twitter to convey her wishes to Khiladi Kumar. Hayek also stressed on ending open defecation. 

Salma Hayek has also said no woman should fear to go to the toilet.

"Good luck to Akshay Kumar on 'Toilet: Ek Prem Katha' out today! End open defecation now! No woman should fear going to the toilet!" Hayek tweeted. 

Good luck to @akshaykumar on @ToiletTheFilm out today! End #OpenDefecation now! No woman should fear going to the toilet! #ToiletEkPremKatha

— Salma Hayek (@salmahayek) August 12, 2017

Akshay thanked the Wild Wild West star for supporting their "small effort" to end open defecation.

"Thank you for your wishes for our small effort (towards making the country open defecation free...)," Akshay wrote.

Thank you for your wishes for our small effort towards #GoingODF : #ToiletEkPremKatha 🙏🏻 https://t.co/LDbZQFOi8W

— Akshay Kumar (@akshaykumar) August 12, 2017

Akshay met Hayek in Dubai at the Global Teachers Prize 2016. Interestingly, even the official handle of United Nations, Environment, also tweeted about the film. 

Open defecation = a health concern that touches nearly a billion lives @akshaykumar & @psbhumi address this global issue in @ToiletTheFilm pic.twitter.com/aechLQPeHr

— UN Environment (@UNEP) August 11, 2017

Directed by Shree Narayan Singh, Toilet: Ek Prem Katha deals with the need for sanitation in India and is based on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Swachh Bharat (Clean India) campaign.