So now we know where Abhishek Bachchan gets his famous flair for pranking. Executive Chairman and Creative Director for Ogilvy & Mather India and South Asia, Piyush Pandey, whose book Pandeymonium (Penguin) was released by his friend actor Amitabh Bachchan, narrated the following incident.

“I remember shooting for a Cadbury’s campaign with Amitabh a few years ago,” said Pandey. “On the O&M team there was a lady colleague of mine, who was going to be meeting the star for the first time, and to prepare for this, she’d specially gone to the beauty parlour to get her hair done the previous day.