His role in Rock The Shaadi is that of a pucca Punjabi lover boy and is an ode to Shah Rukh Khan's character Rahul in DDLJ.
His character would be borrowing heavily from Raj's persona.
The duo have earlier crossed each other's creative paths too SRK did a Devdas while Abhay Deol did a Dev D. A case of Main bhi SRK?