While the two legends, Amitabh Bachchan and Shatrughan Sinha have given some of the biggest blockbusters together, be it Dostana, Kaala Patthar or Shaan, surprisingly their children Abhishek and Sonakshi have never worked together. While Big B and Shotgun Sinha may have been pitted as arch-rivals at one time, today they are friends, who are extremely warm to each other. Their wives Jaya Bachchan and Poonam Sinha are friends and while Abhishek loves the mutton curry Poonam makes, Sonakshi finds Jaya warm and knows how much she is fond of Sonakshi. While Sonakshi is younger to Abhishek by eleven years (Abhishek 39, Sonakshi 28) and is shorter than him by 7 inches (Abhishek 6'3'', Sonakshi 5'8'') what they match each other on is that for the both of them, their fathers are their heroes and that they are fans of each other's fathers. For the first time, they feature in a song Nachan Farrate, a song composed by Meet Brothers, sung by Kanika Kapoor from Umesh Shukla's upcoming family entertainer All Is Well. Excerpts from the first ever joint conversation with Junior Bachchan and Lady Shotgun:

Do you have memories of your fathers working together?
Abhishek: Our dads did great films together, including my most favourite Kaala Patthar. As kids, Uday Chopra and I used to do the Kaala Patthar climax and Adi would come and shout at us as we would be breaking the wall of his house. As kids who have grown up in the industry, and as the progeny of our fathers, who have done legendary work together, you pray and hope that you will be able to give your kids the opportunity that they will be able to speak about you the way you speak about your parents.
Sonakshi: My dad is my hero, but I am a fan of both our fathers. I have not really grown up on movies, but I am seeing the work Amit uncle is doing right now. He has been there from then to now and even today at 73, he is rocking and competing with all of us.

Have you been together on a set?
Abhishek: Sonakshi is eleven years younger to me and she would not have been born then. Of course, keeping in mind the heroes she works with I am the youngest she has worked with.

Did your father tell you any tales about that time?
Abhishek: It's wonderful watching that whole generation. They have their own families, their individual work, but whenever they come together, there is an amazing camaraderie and it feels like they have picked up from when they last met, which is something that is really envious. What is really nice is that they are all grandfathers today, but with each other, they are like children together. They are always joking around and having fun. In the 70s and 80s, they would sometimes be doing three films together over multiple shifts in a day, so much so that they would many times even travel from one set to another together. They landed spending so much time together that they were like extended families. Today actors like to do only one film at a time.
Sonakshi: I remember when dad was not well and Amit uncle came to meet dad, it was a spectacle to just watch them together. They were just so warm and it seemed that they had always been like that, despite all the stories that have been written about them.

Abhishek, any memories of your father talking about Shatruji?
Not my dad, but my mom and my mausies have told me a lot. My mother and Shatru uncle are both from FTII. He was very friendly with my mausies, who were much younger to my mother. Whenever my mausies wanted to go to a party or a premiere, they would steal my mom's passes, call up Shatru uncle, who would be chaperoning them there. They were like sisters to him. He was very strict, very protective and made sure that they went home on time. Once my mausies had shown up at a party where my father also came, he caught them and sent them back home.

Sonakshi, anything you remember that your dad has told you about Big B?
My dad, Amit uncle, Subhash uncle (Subhash Ghai) and Sanjeev Kumar had shifted to Mumbai around the same time. They all were PGs at the same house and were roommates. They used to all struggle together and tell each other in the morning who they were going to meet that day. And come back together in the evening and have their drinks. They entered the world of films together.

How competitive is today's generation versus the earlier one?
Abhishek: Today's generation is far more competitive. Today the market forces are such that you have to be very conscious of what you are doing and how you are doing it unlike before. Also, the audience today is not as forgiving as they used to be previously.

Abhishek, what do you like the most about Shatruji?
One of the most commendable things he did was in the way he started his career as an anti-hero and villain, and turned it around at a time when actors were classified very quickly. I know only two actors who managed to do that, one Vinod uncle (Vinod Khanna) and the other Shatru uncle. They really set the benchmark and went onto to becoming heroes for many people. I heard another legend of him and I must ask him if it's true. Shatru uncle used to never learn his dialogues. So, he would sit on the set, someone would read the scene and it could be as long as it was, but he would just come and deliver them.
Sonakshi: Yes, that's true. He would be lying down, getting his makeup done and the AD (assistant director) would be mouthing the dialogues from there and he would say take, give his shot and he would be gone home. And he remembers those dialogues till today.
Abhishek: I love the way he uses his voice. We do sync sound now and don't really dub as much as they did. But they learnt how to use their voice to improve their performance even after it was done. Be it dad or Shatru uncle, they are known for their voice. But also Shatru uncle's style, till date it's fantastic.

Sonakshi, what do you like the most about Big B?
Other than the fact that Amit uncle is a phenomenal actor who I would love to work with, as working with an actor with his calibre can only improve your performance, his personality surpasses everything. If he enters a frame, you can't not notice it.