Maybe he didn’t hear about Bernard Madoff. Or missed the articles on the Kolkata-based Saradha Group that promised investors the moon but gave them peanuts in the end. Maybe he was busy with films at the time.

It took actor Akshaye Khanna more than two years to realise that the smooth talking Bengali couple who had befriended him at a party and offered to double his money in a year were nothing but big-time fraudsters.