I know I’ve said this before, but Abhishek Bachchan’s Drona is proving to be the proverbial fruit basket that he’s sending to all the people he’s fallen out with over the years in the industry. After trying to rope in Raj Thackerey and the Kapoor sisters, the latest victim in this no holds barred display of last-ditch diplomacy is none other than chain-smoker and Johar junkie, Shah Rukh Khan.

His shock appearance at the event made it clear that the animosity between him and Junior B was a thing of the past. Moreover, it was also made very clear that there’s nothing Shah Rukh loves more than making small talk with the first family of Bollywood on a Thursday night.

By showing up at the Drona premiere, SRK also smoothed things over with Ash. The two of them had fallen out after Chalte Chalte when Sallu gave ‘inappropriate sexual deviancy’ a new meaning by showing up on the sets of the movie and creating a rucus. But from the look of things yesterday, the long cold war between SRK and the Bachchans has ended. So now, there’s only one stone left to upturn. (Rick Flair/Nature Boy music begins)… SALLU!