Who Is Shirish Kunder?

Shirish, 38, is an electronics engineer by training and worked for Motorola before hitting Bollywood.

The first film he worked on as an editor was the Sunny Deol and Manisha Koirala-starrer Champion that released in 2000.

He edited films like the Amitabh Bachchan-starrer Aankhen (Director: Vipul Shah) in 2002, Farah Khan's Main Hoon Na and Imtiaz Ali's first film Socha Na Tha.

It was in the editing room when he was cutting Main Hoon Na with Farah that love came-a-calling.

Farah and Shirish married in 2004. Two years later, the movie editor turned director with Jaan-E-Mann in 2006, starring Salman Khan and Akshay Kumar. The film didn't do well, though it had some good songs.

Salman and SRK were still friends then; their falling out would occur a couple of years later at Katrina Kaif's birthday party.

Farah was one of SRK's best buddies -- there was even talk that Shirish and she would move into an apartment in the building SRK was building behind his mansion, Mannat.

Somewhere down the line, for reasons that are as cloaked in mystery as Karisma Kapoor's break-up with Abhishek Bachchan, Shirish got SRK's goat.

Farah and SRK parted ways on a rather sour note when the superstar turned down Tees Maar Khan, which Shirish had written.

Farah had to make a choice between the father of her triplets and the man who had made her a big director. She chose hubby.

Just before Sunday's incident at the Agneepath party, the Mumbai Mirror newspaper claimed SRK mentioned that he had promised his children he would slap Shirish for that hurtful tweet.

Farah Khan denied that her husband had provoked SRK, but newspaper accounts pieced together from guests present early on Monday morning alleged that Shirish had needled the superstar.

The morning after he finally made the front pages, the Joker director tweeted: 'Some of your jokes on the incident were very funny. Including the ones on me. Keep up the humour. I'll be back soon.'

Farah and Shirish do not plan to file a police complaint against SRK. 'Thanks for all your concern & wishes,' Shirish tweeted. 'We are very grateful. Contrary to rumours, we have no intention of filing a FIR or police complaint.'

When the maar-peet was going on, newspapers reported that SRK told Shirish to tell his 'friend' that he would take care of him too, not so politely, of course.

Will said Shirish buddy, who lives about 1.5 miles from SRK's home, now take up the challenge?