Director Ali Abbas Zafar has said that Akshay Kumar and Tiger Shroff-starrer 'Bade Miyan Chote Miyan' is a "buddy film". "It's in the zone of cinema we used to see in the 80s when Amitabh Bachchan, Vinod Khanna, Dharmendra used to come together," Ali added. He revealed that they will begin shooting in the first week of January next year.