All eyes may be on Shahrukh Khan on the eve of release of Karan Johar's 'Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna' but a major share of the accolades for the film could well go the way of Bollywood's new teenage heartthrob Abhishek Bachchan, if initial reaction to the television promos and trailors of the film are anything to go by.

Shahrukh Khan may be playing the central character in 'Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna' but if trade sources are to be believed Abhishek may prove to be the ultimate dark horse who gets all claps from the kids, youths and front benchers as well as the sympathy of the family audiences.

Those who have seen the rushes of the film say that Shahrukh's ''overwhelming presence'' in the film notwithstanding, several sequences in 'Kabhi Alvida na Kehna' which present Abhishek as the ''architypical angry young man'' may endear him to the cinegoers in the same way as Amitabh's angry young man persona in films like ''Deewar''', ''Zanzeer'' and ''Trishul'' did in the 70s.

In the film, Shahrukh play the character of a person who, caught in a loveless marriage, falls in love with the character of Rani Mukherjee, who, while married to Abhishek Bachchan, too finds herself stifled in her marriage.

Sources in the film trade say that though the film, essentially, revolves around Shahrukh as is the case with most films by Karan Johar, the sympathies of the audiences, specially the kids and family audiences who form a major proportion of the cinegoers could well go to the character played by Abhishek Bachchan in the film.

This, coupled with the immense popularity of the two songs ''Rock N Roll Soniye'' and ''Where's the Party tonight'' in which Abhishek appears, could result in Junior Bachchan adding to his already big fan following among the kids and the youth after ''Kajra Re'' and ''Right Here Right Now'' songs in ''Bunty Aur Babli'' and ''Bluffmaster''.