The Oberoi's Not At War

With cousin brother Akshay Oberoi making his debut into Bollywood with Rajshri Production's Isi Life Mein, elder brother Vivek Oberoi seemed to hold no excitement towards the younger sibling's fresh foothold into the competitive industry.

 

It has been told that brothers never got along and always held cold shoulders towards each other. Along with Vivek never acknowledging any sort of brotherhood with Akshay, he has not really lent a helping hand to Akshay in his struggling stage with visits to producers' offices. A noticeable fact had been Akshay's absence at Vivek's grand wedding. He bailed himself out on the pretext of promotional trips, when fact is that no such campaigns had been scheduled for that month. As if to do away with wagging tongues, Akshay was however seen at the post wedding reception party.

 

And strangely enough, since then, the petty estrangement rumors have been quashed by the Oberoi brothers, who deny any kinsmen cold wars at all; and most recently, Akshay invited Vivek to watch his debut film released this week. He has also said that although the two have not grown up together, with one residing in India and the other in the US, they are still there for each other and do belong to one family, with not a difference of hearts, but of ideologies and lifestyles.

Covering his tracks further, Akshay has claimed that the reason why he had refused to acknowledge Vivek as his cousin was because he wanted to cut a niche for himself without the shadow of his cousin's fame and success looming over him. The newbie has also admitted to being a big fan of his cousin brother Vivek.