While former best buddies-turned-enemies Sanjay Dutt and Sanjay Gupta ignored each other for most of the evening, later on, someone yelled across the room, "Hey Gups!" Everyone froze, more so Gupta. It took the filmmaker a few seconds to realise it was Dutt, possibly mellow after downing a couple of drinks, who had called out to him. Gupta turned around and greeted Dutt with a warm hug. All the bitterness seemed to melt away with that jadoo ki jhappi.

Dutt was with his wife Maanyata when he and Gupta hugged and made up. Gupta's wife Anu was nowhere in sight. Said our eyewitness, "When Anu returned, she was startled to see her husband speaking to Dutt. Gupta warmly introduced Anu to Maanyata. They spoke for almost 10 minutes."

Gupta admitted: "We met and we hugged. That was it. Our wives met for the first time. I think life is too short to hold on to grudges." Dutt too confirmed: "Gups and I reached out to one another at Amitji's b'day party. It felt really nice. After all, he is like a younger brother. We go back a long way."

After Shootout at Lokhandwala (2007), Dutt had terminated his professional and personal partnership with best buddy Gupta amidst allegations of financial bungling within White Feather Films, the production company they had partnered since 2001.

The fallout was so bitter that in an earlier interview, Gupta had said he would never be friends with Dutt in this life. Dutt had replied, "Why only this life? We can't be friends in any of my futurelives." Looks like Dutt will never say never again.