The Big Khan Fallout: What went wrong between Salman Khan and Aamir Khan?

Aamir Khan and Salman Khan have always maintained that they share a great bond with each other. Not anymore. The long standing friendship between the two Khans have gone kaput. Reason? A series of events have caused this fallout. After Salman and Shah Rukh had a terrible feud a few years back, it was Aamir who became Salman's closest confidante. But now, everything has gone down the drain as the two actors recently had a heated argument which left Aamir in tears and Salman in a state of fury. 

So for all those who have no clue about how it started, here's the detailed explanation of how matters went from bad to worse between the two once-upon-a-time great friends. 

The Inception:

Salman and Aamir's friendship started having the first cracks when Salman signed on for YRF's Sultan. Why? Aamir was already prepping up to play a wrestler in Dangal and Sultan too will have Salman playing the role of a wrestler. Seeing the similarities in theme and context, what left Aamir paranoid was that YRF, despite planning the film much later, announced that Sultan will hit theatres next year Eid while Aamir's Dangal will only release around Christmas, which is six months after Sultan releases worldwide. Now, given that the entire backdrop and the core theme will become repetitive, Aamir feared losing out on his audiences. An insecure Aamir even tried calling good friend Aditya Chopra and requested him to shift his shooting locations, which turned out to be exactly the same areas in which he's camping for the Nitesh Tiwary directorial. Nothing helped and Salman is all set to begin shooting in the same locales this November. But Aamir being Aamir, decided to reveal the first look poster just a day after he started shooting. 

Between the Lines:

While the Sultan-Dangal issue caused a small crack in their relationship, what happened in between made matters worse. Salman kept a special screening of Bajrangi Bhaijaan for Aamir and his family this Eid. The film, which was high on emotional content had Aamir in tears and the actor was caught wiping his tears after catching the show. But soon matters worsened when at the BB success party, Aamir went around telling all the invitees how he was the first choice for Bajrangi Bhaijaan and how it was because of him rejecting the film, Salman landed up with the offer. Noticing that Aamir was trying to hog all the limelight, they had a war of words at the event. Onlookers were shocked to see the verbal debate as the two Khans went against each other. Kabir Khan on being questioned confirmed that he never approached Aamir for the film ever. Once Aamir's lies were out in the open, we understood what was really going on. 

The Final Nail in the Coffin:

This time it was a party at Aamir's residence which the actor organised just before he zoomed off to Punjab to shoot for Dangal. The two were sharing a friendly banter when suddenly Aamir decided to sit and dissect Salman's career. Although he showered heaps of praises for Salman for doing BB, he started talking about the several bad choices Sallu made in his career. He also allegedly told in front of invitees that had Salman shown this maturity at the beginning of his career, he would have succeeded all through. That did not go down well with Salman who still decided to let it go as another off-remark that Aamir usually makes. But Aamir pushed it way too far when he remarked that Salman has had it easy because he does not need to work hard like other actors since his films are lapped by the audiences even where;s no story or screenplay. Salman shot back immediately and a news portal reported that the Dabangg actor used the choicest of expletives in rage, also accusing Aamir to be fake and the reason why his directors and writers don't get any credit. Not just that, Salman immediately walked out of the party which left Aamir in tears. Guess Aamir will repent for his words now. But for their friendship, it's too late to be saved. 

We also hear!

After Salman and SRK mended their ways and decided to become friends again, Aamir was the one who was hit hard by the news. Despite the fact that the three Khans FaceTimed with each other prior to Arpita Khan's wedding when the Baadshah went calling the Khans at their Galaxy apartment, we hear that Aamir felt insecure with the growing fondness between our on screen Karan-Arjun. Now, we don't know if this was also one of the reasons why Aamir took regular jibes at Salman off late. Your guess is good as ours!