I like the way everybody's going on about Farhan Akhtar announcing his divorce from wife Adhuna to clear the decks for his relationship with Aditi Rao Hydari. But no one seems to even remember that Aditi, too, has a failed marriage behind her. The quiet, smart girl did always keep her marriage to fellow actor Satyadeep Misra very low-key. In fact, just after the Sudhir Mishra film Ye Saali Zindagi in which she shared a trillion smooches with the hunky Arunoday Singh, when a colleague went to interview Aditi, the fragile beauty told her not to mention that she was married. The divorce too was kept characteristically under the radar - therefore few heard either about Aditi's marriage or its end.

And so, if indeed they are seriously a couple, Farhan and Aditi each have a marriage behind them. Like Farhan-Adhuna, Aditi and former spouse Satyadeep too, continue to believe they're still good friends. One more point in common is that Farhan's parents Javed Akhtar and Honey Irani were divorced when he was still in school. Aditi is also the product of a broken marriage - her parents divorced when she was barely two years old. The D gang has grown in numbers.

Another alphabet that was popular a while ago was B for ban and boycott - social boycott, more specifically. Shah Rukh Khan and Aamir Khan had faced it after their now-tiresome intolerance statements, and SRK had blamed the social boycott of Dilwale for its weak box-office performance. He'd also tried to salvage it at the last minute by retracting the statements that had attracted the boycott of his movies.

But the charmer, who's known to adroitly flip his words, is back to claiming that Dilwale didn't do well not because of social ire against him but because Kajol, Rohit Shetty and he did not make a good enough film. Entirely understandable that on the eve of Fan, a film that means a lot to him, he'd rather take the rap as a filmmaker than remind people why some of them didn't want to patronise his cinema. That's been one serious takeaway from the Dilwale episode for Shah Rukh Khan.

Another takeaway for the smart actor has been the unnecessary clash of two biggies at the box office. However nonchalant he may be about it, Shah Rukh knows that he should have avoided releasing Dilwale on the same day as Bajirao Mastani, a decision that further ate into his collections. So now, when Salman Khan and he have announced their respective films Sultan and Raees as Eid releases, one of them has to backtrack.

Even though he's wrapped up the shooting of Raees , another film that will wipe out the bad after-taste of Happy New Year and Dilwale , the whisper is that it is the recently bitten Shah Rukh who will push his film by a few weeks. An Eid release will remain Salman's solo territory for now.

For some more merry-go-round stories, listen to what's happening to the new Tiger Shroff-Shraddha Kapoor film Baaghi . The makers have been taken to court because the action sequences resemble those of an Indonesian film called The Raid: Redemption. However, people from Hyderabad insist that Baaghi is a remake of their Telugu film Varsham, which starred Prabhas who's now better known as the hero of Bahubali . Funnily, it doesn't end there. The Hyderabadis also say that Varsham was inspired by Anil Kapoor's Tezaab , the film which made Madhuri Dixit and her Ek, do, teen, a household name.

If Baaghi = Varsham and Varsham = Tezaab, does that make Tiger's Baaghi a remake of Anil's Tezaab? So does that also mean, Tezaab maker N. Chandra is the one who should be screaming about rights? Confusing. Whatever the inspiration, whether Indonesian, Telugu or the backyard of Hindi cinema, fingers are crossed that Baaghi wriggles out of all legal tangles before the April 29 release.

Meanwhile, Baaghi 's Hyderabad connection continues. The main villain is a six-pack martial arts specialist named Sudheer Babu. Hyderabad-based Sudheer is the brother-in-law of Andhra heart-throb Mahesh Babu who is married to former beauty queen, fashion model and Hindi film actress Namrata Shirodkar. It's a small world.

If Baaghi does make it to the theatres unscathed, one person who'll watch it very keenly will be Rakesh Roshan. Two years ago, RR was so impressed with Tiger's unique screen presence in Heropanti that he wanted to make a film with him, despite having his own in-house hero, Hrithik. One more impressive performance and RR will have something interesting for Tiger.

Bharathi S. Pradhan is a senior journalist and author