Puneet & his Pranks

The latest prank played on me by my office gang (And I was welcomed) reminded me of the old times when I executed some very well thought of pranks…
I wanna share 2 pranks which I can never forget…

Meet Riya Saxena…
(Year 2000)
Riya Saxena a fictional character in the world of Puneet…
One day Riya mailed one of my very sweet friends in Mumbai… I was in Nagpur and so was Riya…
My friend replied back… enquiring who she was…
Riya answered no questions but kept sending her nice festive greetings and wished her on her Birthday thru mails and e-greetings…
Then… my friend got really curious to know who Riya was…
Riya then shared some close secrets of my friend…
My Friend got worried …
Finally Riya agreed to disclose her identity provided its kept secret…
My friend agreed…and
Riya said… “I’m the GF of your very good friend…Guess who…” and then
My Friend did some ground work and enquired back if he is Puneet… (Bingooo)
Riya confirms… and the conversation hits… they became good friends…
Riya shared how she met Puneet…how they became friends and their love story…but she took a promise of not sharing this with Puneet coz Puneet is planning to give them a surprise ;-)
This whole episode took around 3-4 months…slowly… steadily…and me enjoying and planning what next … ;-)

I visited Mumbai…and I know my friend… she can’t keep things to herself… and she shared about Riya with a common friend…and then…

Both of these girlz took a nice session of Puneet… Puneet narrated the same story which Riya had narrated…and apologized for hiding this…

Moreover my friends were like… “Dare u say anything to Riya” (coz she contacted them without keeping me in loop…) and I happily bowed down to their request ;-)

Luv story was continued for another month and I had to visit Mumbai again… this time a real friend of mine from Nagpur was with me… she knew about the Prank… and I asked her to play the character of Riya for sometime… when we reached Mumbai… my friends were completely confused… coz some knew I was coming with my friend…and some knew I was coming with Riya…
Finally the curtain raiser that there was no one called Riya… and we had a nice laughing session… my friend was almost about to kill me for that Prank…
It was great fun………..
(This was the time of my break-off with my ex-GF… so the story made sense to my friend)


Meet Rohit Arora
(Year 2003-04)
Another fictional character in Puneet’s world
He is Chartered Accountant working with Price Waterhouse Coopers… by coincidence got in touch by my sweetest pal… she is also a Chartered….

First my friend doubted the existence of Rohit… & knowing me immediately enquired with me… I used all my acting and lying skills to look innocent… and was successful ;-)

Rohit then exchanged lots of “Legal Updates” with my friend and other 7-8 friends (all fake ids created by me)…
and to add some spice… some occasional personal mails were also exchanged… and this was continued for months and my friend was assured about the existence of Rohit… she forwarded his “Updates wala” mail to me ;-) (hehehhe and I used to laugh… mean Me)

Now the time for curtain raiser… that too in style na…
Rohit wrote a mail to the entire group…
A formal meet was organized at Oberoi (at Nariman Point)… the whole gang who were on the mailing list were supposed to meet… and one was free to invite his/her colleagues… the entry fee was Rs.250/- (for dinner @ Oberoi…so cheap na…coz Auditors of Oberoi belong to this group… that’s why the concession… all planned up)…
My friend told me about the meet and I agreed to go with her… ;-)

My original plan was to go with her to Oberoi… to make her enquire about this meet @ Oberoi and after not finding anything… open it up… but then I came to know that she has planned to call some of her friends from Borivali on a Sunday eve…(for nothing)…

So I made some changes in the plan…

On the final day…Rohit was messaging my friend since morning to plan up the meet…(now u must be wondering how come Rohit messaged coz there was no Rohit and my friend must be having my cell number… he he he… I used to carry two cell phones… my office phone number was not known to my other friends and my personal number was not known to my office friends ;-) trick worked)…

Then in the afternoon Rohit called and spoke with her… in fundu accent… (I had to make that chat very brief else there was a fear of me getting caught)…

After sometime I spoke with my friend… she was like… He is a typical PWC Chartered… full of accent and attitude…
;-) I started laughing… and before she could say about the conversation I told her what Rohit and she must have spoken about… and she was like… “You are Rohit…@#$#%##@$”… good we were on phone…

My friend had told 3-4 of her friends about this meet and also her parents… gosh my sweetheart friend… faced the embarrassment of telling everyone that it was a prank… her parents went off laughing…

After that she always stored my office number with the name of Rohit… and when ever she used to talk about her marriage… I used to say… Rohit hain na ;-)…
I dunnu about Rohit…but I miss her a lot ;-) (And she went away)

These are not the only stories… but the ones which are very close to me… may be coz it’s played on my best pals… Rohit and Riya have troubled a lot of people… and so has Puneet…