Rani Mukherjee who is presently shooting with Shahid Kapoor for Yash Raj’s next film had to take back her words when it finally got on Shahid’s nerves.

A source tells, “It’s a known fact that Rani is elder to Shahid by a few years. Rani was hell bent on not letting their age difference be visible not only on screen but off the screen as well.”

So Rani started calling him as, ‘Shahid Sir’ every now and then. Initially Shahid found it funny. Shahid however, could not hide his embarrassment, as she would say that in front of the entire Yash Raj unit which is like a ‘home ground’ for her. But after a point it started getting on his nerves when every single person in the unit started imitating Rani and addressing him as ‘Shahid Sir’. Last week when Rani’s Man Friday went up to him to give Rani’s message to join him for lunch during the shooting lunch break and ended up using the ‘Shahid Sir’ term as usual, irritated Shahid shouted back at him for using it and the poor gentleman literally ran back to Rani. Shahid didn’t join Rani for lunch but the matter seemed to be over by the evening after Rani went and spoke to him after the shoot for the day got over.”

“Now they both are addressing each other by their first names.” includes the source.