Watch: Salman Khan and Shah Rukh Khan invoke Karan Arjun for teaser of Bigg Boss 9

First, they were friends. Then, they were not. Now, we hear they are back together. If anybody knows how to milk media attention with their relationship, it’s not Ranvir Singh and Deepika Padukone; it’s Salman Khan and Shah Rukh Khan. As if eagerly posting on social media about their friendship wasn’t enough (remember those Prem Ratan Dhan Payo/ Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge dubsmash videos?), they are now coming together on a television show to actually talk about their break-ups and patch-ups. [caption id=“attachment_2541160” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] Salman Khan and Shah Rukh Khan in the teaser video. Screengrab from YouTube[/caption] Of course, there is nothing altruistic about it. They are going to talk to Bigg Boss contestants, after all, which looks a lot like Shah Rukh’s latest effort to promote Dilwale. A video teasing their appearance is already going viral. The video takes viewers back to the film that first brought them together on the big screen: Karan Arjun. (Incidentally, like Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, it too completed its 20th anniversary this year.) Shah Rukh and Salman walk on to a set that has an idol of Goddess Kali, like the one in the movie, and claim very cornily that Salman is ‘Prem’ and Shah Rukh is a ‘dilwala’ and both of them only have love in their hearts. Ha! ‘Dosti mein toh unnees-bees must hai na, hoti rehti hai (minor differences are a must in friendship),’ says Salman as Shah Rukh agrees. And they claim that’s why they are coming on Bigg Boss on 19 and 20 December. While the video succeeds in being a tease of what they are going to talk about on the Bigg Boss Double Trouble episode, somehow, the two just don’t exude the same chemistry that they once had. Maybe it’s the corny lines or the bad script, but the bond they had in Karan Arjun (or even in Kuch Kuch Hota Hai) is just not there. And the setting of the video makes the comparison, however unfair, inevitable. The reality doesn’t meet the expectations. If you can, enjoy the video for what it is without thinking about the good ol’ days.