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The two topmost Khans of Bollywood are at loggerheads. No doubt their friendship has been strained from the start.

Someone has rightly said that two swords cannot stay inside one scabbard. They would rattle. Much rattling has been going on between Shahrukh Khan and Salman Khan from the start of their friendship in Bollywood.




The two first fought on the sets of SRK’s film Chalte Chalte way back in 2003 when Salman (then on the rebound) barged onto the sets of the movie and demanded to speak to Aishwarya Rai who had then freshly dumped him like some hot potato. Salman’s aggressive behavior did not please SRK and the two indulged in a heated squabble.

The first crack in the friendship lasted about one-and-a-half years during with neither SRK nor Salman tried to mend their fences.

Then came Farah Khan ’s sangeeth ceremony in December 2004 which both SRK and Salman attended. It was a festive occasion and the two stars apparently found it most auspicious to bury their hatchets. Bury them they did with a bear hug and a few tears of repentance.

Bygones were let bygones and Salman-SRK were friends again.

But last week, a fresh crack appeared in their friendship, a crack that may be difficult to repair.

At the birthday party of Katrina Kaif , Salman and SRK almost came to blows. How the spat began is still unclear, but sources present at the party say Salman was inciting SRK with provocative remarks from the start of the party.

According to one report, while having a friendly conversation with the guests and Salman, SRK in his usual flamboyance proclaimed himself (jocularly) as the superstar of Bollywood. But Salman reportedly took the remark seriously and replied that SRK was a superstar who was ‘Paanchvi Fail’ (an allusion to SRK’s unsuccessful TV show ‘Kya Aap Paanchvi Paas Hai’). SRK, too, did not take the remark kindly and said something that disturbed Salman.

Thereby, what began as harmless joshing turned into a full-blown war of words between the two superstars of Bollywood. People present at the party tried to intervene between the two, but the two stars had already reached the point of no return.

Reports say just when it seemed that verbal spat was about to become physical, SRK’s wife Gauri Khan took him by hand and led him straight out of the party. And what was supposed to be a night of revelry ended on a rather sour note.

Even though the whole B-Town is buzzing with the talk of the spat, neither Salman nor SRK has so far tried to make a compromise. The chill that was there between them four years ago has returned again.

Someone has rightly said: ‘The more things change, the more they remain the same’.