SRK and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan patch up at KJo's b'day bash

Karan Johar's birthday party on Monday night was a night of patch-ups. Especially for the Bachchan boy. Vivek Oberoi and he hugged each other, he exchanged hellos with Karisma Kapoor and chatted at length with SRK.

But the surprise patch-up of the evening was between Shah Rukh Khan and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan.

Says a source present at the party, "After Shah Rukh dropped Aishwarya unceremoniously from his home production Chalte Chalte, she never forgave or forgot that. Things between them got worse when SRK and Gauri were not invited to the AbhiAsh wedding.

But the final straw was reports of Shah Rukh having said unflattering things about Ash during a verbal war with Salman, last year. While Salman maintained that SRK had made debasing comments about Ash, SRK swore that he had too much respect for women to demean them.

At the time, Shah Rukh had called the Bachchans' family friend Amar Singh and had explained to him that he hadn't said anything demeaning about the Bachchan bahu, but the damage was done. Battle lines were drawn.

But on Monday night, when Karan brought them together, both sides decided to put aside their differences and make a fresh start. Says a source, "A few minutes into the conversation with Ash, SRK apologised to her." He said, 'I think I owe you an apology because in some way I have wronged you." Ash gracefully accepted the olive branch offered.

After that, Abhishek, Ash, Shah Rukh and Gauri stuck together dancing, chatting and laughing. As the party wound up, Gauri asked her usual group of friends back home to continue the party there. She also invited Ash and Abhishek to come along, and they all piled into one car and headed for Mannat.

Other couples like Hrithik and Sussanne Roshan, Kareena Kapoor and Saif Ali Khan, Kajaal Anand and Arjun Rampal and Mehr Jesia joined them later. The group partied at SRK's home till 6 am and left after having breakfast." Happy endings are so much fun.

Shah Rukh unhappy with My Name is Khan

We are told SRK was in the US trying to beat the blues of his IPL team’s dismal showing. He was on a holiday with his wife and kids and keeping away from everything related to Bollywood and cricket. Now that’s the official word.

But that’s not actually the case and SRK away from movies is like a fish without water. We have it from confirmed sources that while in the US, Shah Rukh was re-shooting some portions of Karan Johar’s My Name Is Khan, which haven’t worked out according to the director’s vision. We had told you earlier how Karan was hoping to re-shoot the scenes on a set in Mumbai with Kajol and SRK, but she flatly refused to give him extra dates for the film. The whole idea of shooting in Mumbai was to accommodate Kajol, but since she wasn’t going to be a part of it, it didn’t make any sense.

So the schedule was planned with SRK when he was there on his holiday. We are told SRK is also not particularly happy with the rumblings from the US unit from the previous schedule and has asked Karan to look into the matters himself, because it’s never happened with his films before. And he also didn’t want to have a bad reputation in New York, which according to him is like his second home.