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Amitabh Bachchan attended advertising expert Piyush Pandey’s funeral in Mumbai on Saturday. The veteran Bollywood actor was snapped by the paparazzi as he arrived at Pandey’s residence with his son, Abhishek Bachchan. Big B paid his tributes to Piyush and offered condolences to the family. Apart from Amitabh and Abhishek, several other Bollywood stars, including Manoj Pahwa and Ashoke Pandit, also attended Pandey’s funeral to bid their final goodbye. Piyush Pandey passed away on Friday, October 24. Hours after his death, Amitabh also mourned the loss via his blog and addressed Pandey as “a creative genius, a most amiable friend, and guide.” “A creative genius… a most amiable friend, and guide… has left us… No words to express our grief… Piyush Pandey passed away this morning… The creative works left behind by him shall ever be an eternal emblem of his immeasurable creativity,” Big B wrote. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Viral Bhayani (@viralbhayani) View this post on Instagram A post shared by Instant Bollywood (@instantbollywood) About Amitabh and Piyush’s collaborations Amitabh Bachchan and Piyush Pandey shared a long-standing professional partnership that spanned decades, giving India some of its most memorable advertising campaigns. Their collaborations included the iconic Cadbury Dairy Milk Pappu Pass Ho Gaya series, the impactful Polio Eradication campaign with Amitabh delivering the powerful Do Boond Zindagi Ki message, and groundbreaking Gujarat tourism ads that became defining moments on Indian television. Not only did the two collaborate often, but Big B also did the polio campaign for free. In his book Pandeymonium: Piyush Pandey On Advertising, Pandey shared that Big B did the campaign for free as it was a government initiative. Recalling how he had an idea to pull off a great campaign with Big B’s character of the “angry young man,” Pandey shared, “I rushed to Mr Bachchan and said, ‘Sir, everyone calls you the symbol of the Angry Young Man because of your roles in your earlier super-hit films. How about you playing the Angry Old Man in this campaign?’ He loved the idea.”
