In Shah Rukh Khan’s much-flaunted mega item number in his forthcoming “Om Shanti Om”, old timers Dharmendra, Jeetendra and Mithun Chakraborty shake a leg along with a bevy of 28 other top stars – but Amitabh Bachchan and son Abhishek are conspicuously missing.

For those thinking gleefully that the song is another example of the Shah Rukh-Amitabh famed rivalry, it may be a bit of disappointment to know that both the Bachchans are very much in the film.

“The Bachchans are not in the title song, but will feature in the other sequences,”  Om Shanti Om team told in an Interview..

“How can I not have Mr. Bachchan and Abhishek? Both father and son have a special appearance in my film. They come in a scene just before the song,” Farah Khan, who approached 34 stars but managed to get only 31, was quoted as saying.

Set in the 70s film industry “Om Shanti Om”, is about a struggling actor Om, who falls in love with a successful actress, played by pretty newcomer Deepika Padukone. But before Om can woo her, he dies in an accident. He takes a new avatar in “another birth” as a big star and goes in search of his “previous life” love.

Bachchan’s presence in “Om Shanti Om”, a Shah Rukh Khan home production, puts an end to speculation about the animosity between the two stars.