Whether you describe them as competitors or as good friends, since the last 15 years the Shahrukh Khan vs Aamir Khan saga has been in the headlines to feed the readers. Surprisingly enough there has never been a clear winner as both Shahrukh Khan and Aamir Khan are immensely popular and worshipped in Bollywood, with a huge fan following.
Looking back in 1994, Shahrukh Khan starrer ‘Ram Jaane” was released along with Aamir Khan starrer “Akele Hum Akele Tum” on the very same day.To your ultimate surprise, both the movies were flop. From that point of time, both Shahrukh Khan and Aamir Khan have seen to be very choosywhile signing or producing any movie. People may have noted that both the superstars are real life friends but always remained cautious of not getting subdued by one another. For an example, Aamir Khan’s much appreciated film ‘Rang De Basanti”, had Shahrukh Khan initially as to be seen a role which was eventually played by R. Madhavan. On the other side, The King Khan had also offered Aamir Khan to play a cameo role in the much hyped “Om Shanti Om” item number, but the offer was declined by the perfectionist Aamir, stating that he was busy doing his own films.
An interesting fact is that Shahrukh Khan’s failure has always been Aamir’s success and vice versa. Sharukhh, Sunny Deol and Juhi Chawla starrer “Darr “was initially supposed to have Aamir Khan in the role played by Shahrukh who was in great doubts about playing in a villain’s role. The very brave SRK without bothering much about his hero image did it anyway. Likely, Amir Khan led Oscar nominated ”Lagaan” was initially offered to the King Khan who was not sure whether it would work or not and eventually Aamir Khan landed up creating history out of “Lagaan”.
More recently in the year 2008; surprising all Shahrukh Khan went for low key marketing. He did not publicise “Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi”as he did “Om Shanti Om”. He said that it was not the correct time to publicise or discuss about his film taking into account the tragic event of 26/11. On the contrary,Aamir Khan has landed up with slick promotional strategies for his last year release Ghajini, Whether its the print media, the television or even the online. He was seen to be promoting his productions film titled “Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na” quite well, but for Ghajini, he left no stone unturned.
With so much of contrasting steps and decisions adopted by these two superstars,both of them have always overcome their promises. That is why they are what they are!