Amir and Shahrukh come together for a cause

The two Khans shared a dais to voice the sentiments of the Bollywood fraternity over their demand for equal share of profit with multiplex owners.

It required a crisis in Bollywood to prompt two of its biggest stars and bitter rivals Shahrukh Khan and Aamir Khan to bury the hatchet and share a dais for a common cause.
The two Khans came together on a platform in Mumbai on April 7 to rally behind United Producers and Distributors Forum in their battle against multiplex owners demanding equal revenue share from a film's release.
The occasion was the two superstars' interaction with the media to plead for producers and distributors.
The standoff between producers and distributors on one hand and multiplex owners on the other is threatening to stall release of new Bollywood films in multi-screen multiplexes across India.
It was possibly the first time in their over two-decade careers that Shahrukh and Aamir came together on the same platform for a common cause, providing a big opportunity for the shutterbugs to click away frenziedly keeping a hawk's eye on their body language.
And why not? Till recently, Shahrukh and Aamir had been taking pot shots at each other publicly, continuing the war of words that had begun last year with Aamir calling Shahrukh the number two star at a press conference.
The rivalry between the two actors had deteriorated further with shriller war of attrition.
Director-producer Karan Johar highlighted the rivalry between the two Khans by beginning the press conference on April 7 with the request to media persons not to ask any question on the “friendship” between the two actors.
But given the irrepressible journalists, Shahrukh was asked if his sharing the dais with Aamir could be called a rapprochement between them. “This is a non-issue,” pat came the reply from Shah Rukh.
“We are both grown up and intelligent people. Of course, I am less intelligent than Aamir. I respect that and so must you all. It's a non-issue that we are sitting together here on one platform.”
“We will have no problem even if we are sitting in the same plane, the same car or may be even the same film,” he added.
Aamir chipped in by saying (hopefully jokingly), “I think we should get out the boxing gloves now.”
The two actors joked with each other and jointly posed for photo-ops and at times whispered to each other's ears.
Is it the end of the cold war between the two Khans? Is it bonhomie time between? No rewards for guesses.