It seems so yesterday when you could say aloud a Karan-Arjun or a Jai-Veeru without having to pause for a breath. Without Amitabh Bachchan and Shashi Kapoor, Deewar perhaps would have been a distant dream of Yash Chopra. Ramesh Sippy’s Sholay would have never been the same without Big B and Garam Dharam.

From where Jackie Shroff and Anil Kapoor had left off, Akshay Kumar and Suniel Shetty picked up the thread. But increasingly with perhaps the ego issues amongst other reasons creeping in between actors of the same league, the most memorable onscreen male pairings seems to have become a thing of the past.