With male bonding becoming an important theme of Hindi comedies, bromance is clearly in the air. From Jai-Veeru in Sholay and Shyam-Ashok in Pyar Kiye Jaa to now Chetan-Bhagat in David Dhawan's Rascals, Bollywood has time and again used the 'male jodi' formula with great success.

The ingredient is simple: mix a successful or unusual pairing with a script bubbling with humour, one-upmanship and the quintessential clash over the same girl and you have a cliche but a winning formula nonetheless. The upcoming Rascals makes use of the same formula and the incentive, of course, is the Sanjay Dutt-Ajay Devgn pairing. Here's a look at other such male jodis:

Sanjay Dutt-Ajay Devgn On screen chemistry: Having proved their comic talent in All The Best, Sanjay and Ajay -- who started off as action heroes -- made a smooth transition to playing comic roles, the first of which was offered to them by David Dhawan in Hum Kisise Kum Nahin. Their comic timing was just right in All The Best. There's big hope that they will repeat their magic in Rascals.