Ad guru Prahlad Kakkar recalled working on ad films with Bollywood legends Govinda and Amitabh Bachchan, and his experience couldn’t have been more different. While the famously tardy Govinda once showed up to work a full two days late, Prahlad recalled the shock that he got when he walked onto set one morning, to find Amitabh Bachchan quietly reading a newspaper as he waited for the crew to arrive.
In an interaction with Cyrus Broacha, Prahlad described this as ‘the most traumatic’ experience, and said that the next time he worked with the actor, nobody slept the night before. “Our most traumatic moments were with Mr Bachchan. He has a habit of coming five minutes early, with full makeup. No film unit in the world turns up five minutes early, or even on time.”
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He continued, “Just imagine, there’s this studio, there’s a single light. And in that pooling light, Mr Bachchan is sitting on a chair, in full makeup, reading a newspaper, waiting for us to arrive. Nobody has turned except the boys, and he’s told them, ‘Ek light denge? Main akhbaar padhta hoon’. And they put the light on him, and he was sitting on a chair, reading the newspaper nonchalantly. He never said a word; didn’t need to. We s**t. And the next time we were shooting with him, nobody slept.”
In the same interview, Prahlad recalled the story of Govinda assuring him that he could make it in time for a shoot, even though he was in Srinagar and the set was in Hyderabad. He eventually showed up, but 48 hours late. Amitabh’s punctuality is well-known, however. Even Govinda was wary of this when they agreed to work together on the film Bade Miyan Chote Miyan. He told Aaj Tak, “When he joined, I was scared because he is such a veteran. People were also scaring me that he always comes on time. I said I can’t (come on time) because I am tied up in so many movie… Mr Bachchan said, ‘You call me and let me know what time are you coming. I don’t have a problem and it is not my concern if anyone has a problem with your timings’. After this conversation, I signed that film.”
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Amitabh Bachchan was so punctual, he wordlessly traumatised a film crew to the point that they didn’t sleep all night: Prahlad Kakkar recalls anecdote – The Indian Express
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