Stardom has many facets to it: talent, presence, deliverables that matter, and above all, audience acceptability. All three of them came at a time when there was a generational change in the country. The young of the nation, tired and fatigued by the ageing concepts of anti-establishment and anti-heroes, of familial procrastinations and the universal poetic justices of a moral society, wanted to breathe free from it all. They wanted love and romance, have freedom of thought and independent avenues. The audiences saw them in these three, grabbed them, possessed them, obsessed over them and discovered a fresh voice in them. A voice they all wanted to make audible with abandon. Shahrukh, Salman and Aamir gave the audience that voice and they, in turn, gave the three their unique stardom.