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On April Fool’s Day, we bring you a lowdown on some of the Bollywood actors, who are known for their prankster image

In his wife Kiran Rao’s words, Aamir Khan is an “incorrigible prankster.” Many actors have been at the end of his pranks. Actor Raveena Tandon, once revealed how on the sets of Andaz Apna Apna (1994), Aamir threw a cup towrads her, which had nothing in it and she shrieked thinking it was full of hot tea. Aamir repeated this prank with his Dangal co-actor, Fatima Sana Shaikh too.

Singer Cheryl (right), who has welcomed her first child with her boyfriend Liam Payne (above), is reportedly planning to have a low-key wedding with the One Direction singer.

As per a source close to the couple, Cheryl is keen to marry Payne, but as she has been married twice before, she wants to have a low-key wedding this time, reports dailymail.co.uk.

“Cheryl doesn’t want a circus. She’d rather have close friends and family. She’d also love the baby to be sitting on their lap in the wedding photos,” the source told Closer magazine.

Cheryl married footballer Ashley Cole in Barnet, north-west London in 2006. They got divorced in 2010. Later, she married French restaurateur Jean-Bernard Fernandez-Versini in 2014. Their relationship lasted for just 18 months. ollywood actors never cease to take their fans by surprise, and at times, they even take their co-stars for a ride. On April Fool’s Day, here are some Bollywood actors, who are quite popular in the film fraternity for their tomfoolery. From sending out mischievous tweets from filmmaker Farah Khan’s phone during the shooting of Happy New Year (2014) to making the crew of Shararat (2002) drink bhaang-laced milk, Abhishek Bachchan has done it all. And once, after the music launch of his film Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey (2010), junior Bachchan was taking his wife, actor Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, to a room in a hotel. It was only later that she realised he had led her into the men’s washroom.

From sending marriage proposals from their co-actors’ phones to fooling them into eating gajar ka halwa made with red chili paste, here’s what these actors have done to pull the best of pranks while shooting on the sets and elsewhere. A word of statutory warning: Try these at your own risk! Vidya Balan is known for her funny streaks, so much so that when she was actually crying on the sets of Kahaani 2, the crew thought it was one of her antics. Once, she pretended to be unwell and asked a female assistant director to do a bedroom scene for her. On the sets of TE3N (2016), she would make funny faces, leading co-actor Nawazuddin Siddiqui to goof-up the scenes. Recently, while filming Jolly LLB 2, actor Huma Qureshi was pranked by Akshay Kumar — he stole her phone and sent marriage proposals to many actors. Huma was mortified and had to text those people again with explanation. On the sets of Brothers (2015), he took co-actor Sidharth Malhotra’s phone to send ‘I Love You messages’ to random people. Lisa Haydon while shooting for Housefull 3 (2016) also fell prey to his pranks.

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