The internet has a knack for collapsing timelines, and the latest case of cinematic time travel stars Akshaye Khanna and Sanjay Dutt. As Dhurandhar continues to dominate conversations with its intense portrayal of power, betrayal, and rivalry, fans have dug up an unexpected throwback that has now gone viral. Memes comparing Dhurandhar to the duo’s 2010 comedy No Problem are flooding social media, with users calling it a “parallel universe” crossover no one saw coming.
On screen in Dhurandhar, Akshaye Khanna’s Chaudhary Aslam and Sanjay Dutt’s Rehman Dakait are sworn enemies.
Their conflict is central to the film’s emotional and narrative spine. Every shared frame crackles with hostility, distrust, and brute force, turning their rivalry into one of the film’s most gripping elements. They are men shaped by power, ideology, and violence, locked in a battle where coexistence seems impossible.
That is precisely why fans are amused revisiting No Problem, a far more chaotic and light-hearted film that featured the same actors in a completely different register. In the 2010 comedy, Khanna and Dutt played quirky, exaggerated characters designed to generate laughs rather than fear. The tonal shift is so drastic that viewers are now gleefully imagining an alternate universe where Rehman Dakait and Chaudhary Aslam ditch the guns, grudges, and politics to exist peacefully, or at least comedically, in the same world.
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Social media reactions have leaned fully into the joke. Users are posting side-by-side clips and screenshots, contrasting their playful chemistry in No Problem with their ferocious stand-offs in Dhurandhar. One fan summed it up perfectly by commenting, “I was actually thinking about them in ‘No Problem’ while watching their scenes.” The line has since been widely shared, capturing the collective amusement of audiences experiencing cinematic whiplash.
What adds depth to this viral moment is that Akshaye Khanna and Sanjay Dutt’s on-screen association goes far beyond just these two films. Over the years, they have shared screen space in several notable projects. Both were part of LOC Kargil, the sprawling war epic often cited as the longest Hindi film ever made, which featured an ensemble cast including Ajay Devgn and Abhishek Bachchan. They also appeared in the 2004 film Deewaar alongside Amitabh Bachchan. In another fun connection, Dutt lent his voice as the narrator in Tees Maar Khan, a film remembered in pop culture largely for Khanna’s iconic character, Aatish Kapoor.
Adding a final layer of trivia to the nostalgia, No Problem released on December 10, 2010, the same day Ranveer Singh made his Bollywood debut with Band Baaja Baaraat. Fifteen years later, fans are still finding new ways to connect these timelines, proving once again that Bollywood’s past never really stays in the past.
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