Mumbai, July 17 -- When alpha star Hrithik Roshan exchanged punches and killer chops with his younger industry alpha star Tiger Shroff in the teaser for YRF's October offering 'WAR', released on the weekend, it had created a buzz. After all, to have two of Bollywood's biggest action superstars in one film, pitted against each other made for box office legend. But it also confirmed what we'd always believed: Tiger Shroff was cut from the same cloth as Hritik. From their rippling physicality to their strong and silent public image, they had always struck us as very similar. We were chuffed to hear that the Tigress herself (Tiger's mum Ayesha Shroff) concurred with us on this. "Yes, they are truly similar!" she said, adding, "And there is real love there". The way she told it, the two alpha males had met long before. Tiger was a 3-year-old, a toddler on Jackie Shroff's set, during the shooting of King Uncle, where, Hritik had been a lowly AD, all of 19, in charge of Jackie's dialogue rehearsals. The friendship had developed from there. India's future superstar, running around in his half pants on his dad's film set, while his much-admired future superstar was a gangly unit hand, now pitted against each other, blow for blow in a no-holds-barred slug fest of a movie called WAR? It occurred to us that this sweet real life Mutual Admiration Society story recounted by a doting Mum, ran counter to the film's machismo PR branding. It took Hrithik to bring things back to boil again. "You're just starting out in a world I've mastered, @tigerjackieshroff. Take a seat!" were his fighting words to his younger co-star, while presenting the film's teaser on social media. Alpha Guys....