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The big Khans of Bollywood – Aamir Khan, Shahrukh Khan , Salman Khan and Saif Ali Khan are not attending this year’s IIFA Awards function but Bollywood’s power couple Abhishek Bachchan and Aishwarya Bachchan have managed to heat up Macau.

Abhishek and his wife Aishwarya have arrived Macau for the 10th edition of IIFA Awards. The couple looked happy and excited. Abhishek even got hold of the video camera of one of the journalists and gestured to the onlooking fans. He said that the event would be fantastic.

Amitabh Bachchan is the brand ambassador of the IIFA Awards 2009. Actress Lara Dutta will host the awards ceremony along with Boman Irani and Riteish Deshmukh. Jackky Bhagnani, who is making Bollywood debut with Kal Kissne Dekha , is going to perform at the event.

It’s customary for two stars to be pitched against one another in real life whenever they are paired on screen. The last time we heard murmurs of discontent was when Bipasha Basu and Deepika Padukone apparently couldn’t stand one each other while shooting for Bachna Ae Haseeno.

But John Abraham and Abhishek Bachchan get along like a house on fire. To their regret, they had to shoot a music video for Dostana separately.

Producer Karan Johar who just landed in Mumbai after two weeks of location hunting in Los Angeles said the song “Maa Da Ladla” was shot during his absence. “I left it entirely to my director Tarun Mansukhani and to the choreographer Feroz (who’s been Farah Khan’s assistant for ten years). So you’ll have to ask Tarun what happened.”

Tarun Mansukhani has his own explanation for why Abhishek and John shot the song separately. “I deliberately didn’t shoot the song with John and Abhishek together. I wanted at least this one song “Maa Da Ladla” to look different from the rest of the film where they’re constantly together, fooling around, chumming it up. They shot individually, so the masti of the rest of the movie was missing on the sets.” Tarun trails off sadly, and then perks up. “The last shooting before this was for “Desi Girl” where all of us were together. It was so much fun.”

The “Maa Da Ladla” song was shot on 15, 16 and 17 October at Filmistan studios and onlookers watched Abhishek and John arrive on separate days. “This is a music video which we’ll use for promotion and probably for the end titles,” explained Tarun.

Says Abhishek, “It was wonderful to shoot with John Abraham again after Dhoom. It was fun on the sets because we were all friends.”

Added John, “Abhishek is not co-star or colleague. He’s a friend. I dote on him. I love him to death. We never compete. We complement each other in Dostana. We share a great chemistry. Abhishek and I are a couple in the film.”