SRK-Sallu collision averted!

The New Year began on an inauspicious note for Shah Rukh Khan and Salman Khan on Monday.

Both Bollywood superstars left Dubai and arrived at Mumbai simultaneously, within a minute of each other, prompting passengers at the airport and people outside come to receieve them to believe that the actors had buried their rivalry and were back to being friends.

It was high drama at the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport that night. First King Khan showed up outside at 9.23 pm, then seconds later at 9.24 pm, the King of 2010 - Dabangg Salman strode out. People gaped, then quickly asked other Mumbai returnees streaming out if they had been travelling on the same flight as the actors and if SRK and Sallu had been spotted talking to each other.

Of course, nothing like this happened. Both Khans travelled on chartered flights. And, their almost simultaneous departure caused excitement at the Dubai airport as well. They were mobbed by Middle Eastern and Indian fans, hounded for autographs and besieged to pose for photographs. Then the drama picked up in Mumbai when SRK walked out with wife Gauri and son Aryan and Salman with father Salim and mother Helen. Strangely, even both actors' cars were parked together. But this was one instance when the Gods proposed, but men disposed...