So much so, that Hrithik Roshan and wife Sussanne have become permanent fixtures at the parties hosted by Shah Rukh Khan’s wife Gauri at Mannat. Sources say that despite of being busy with his upcoming project ‘Kites’, Hrithik makes it a point to attend all the parties at Shah Rukh’s place. He and Shah Rukh Khan were together even in Dubai during the launching of Atlantis, last year.

Shah Rukh Khan also visits Hrithik’s home quite frequently with his close buddies from bollywood like Karan Johar. A few nights ago, they were spotted playing dumb games with the hosts at Hrithik’s place. It was just a casual gathering of Shah Rukh and his friends at Hrithik’s Juhu home.

A source present on the occasion elaborates that the atmosphere was very pleasant and cool. Shah Rukh and other guests had been divided into two teams and were enjoying miming Hollywood flicks. Finally, SRK’s team won the game.

Earlier, Shah Rukh Khan and Hrithik Roshan had a tiff over ‘Krazzy 4’ item number and were not on good terms with each other. Shah Rukh Khan had worked free of cost in this Rakesh Roshan’s home production but was not satisfied with the treatment meted out to his number in the film.

But when Hrithik Roshan and Shah Rukh Khan felt that they were being isolated by the biggies like Salman Khan, Aamir Khan and Akshay Kumar, they decided to forget the past and stand united.

It may be recalled that Aamir Khan had recently slammed SRK in an interview saying that he had become a bitter man and lost his sense of humor as his films were not doing well at the box office. But, Shah Rukh has refrained from responding to him in the matter so far.

May be bonding with Hrithik Roshan is an answer to Aamir Khan’s verbal volleys by Shah Rukh Khan. Sources say that Shah Rukh Khan wants to make his group far stronger before responding to Aamir’s barbs.

Sources say that Duggu was the perfect candidate for Shah Rukh to rope in to his camp as the handsome hunk, too, had a tiff with Salman Khan over Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s upcoming film. Sallubhai is furious with Hrithik for accepting the film despite knowing the fact that it was Salman who had given the idea of making a remake of Hollywood’s film ‘The Prestige’.

It is learnt that of late King Khan and Hrithik have been catching up on each other often despite their busy schedules. "Though Hrithik is extremely busy with his home production Kites, he is still taking time out to catch up with SRK," informs the source.

"A few weeks ago, the duo was even spotted chilling out together." Over the years, SRK has developed a special fondness for Hrithik. Apparently, when Krrish had released, the star son had a special screening for Shah Rukh to garner his frank opinion.

Later, when Hrithik was in London to promote the film, SRK (who was holidaying there) had hosted a special dinner for him. The source maintains, "B-Town is slowly getting a whiff of the SRK-Hrithik bonding. Both stars refrain from talking about each other. Hrithik is known for being extremely guarded while SRK has not yet given his reply to Aamir's recent outbursts against him."

Meanwhile SRK- Akshay war has been simmering for a while and seems to have reached its boiling point now. Shah Rukh Khan enjoys a position of unrivalled love, attention and power that very few actors command and most dream of. However, of late, there’s a worthy contender threatening to dethrone him in the form of Akshay Kumar.