Tinsel town is abuzz with talks that Rani Mukherjee will marry early next year.

For more than a year now, Rani Mukherjee has been linked with Yashraj Films’ honcho Aditya Chopra . Many times the news of their imminent wedding has made headlines in media but the two proved all speculation wrong.

Now, one more time, B-town is awash with rumours about their marriage. It is being reported that Rani and Aditya will tie the knot on February 10 next year. Sources are quoted as saying that the wedding was truly on this time.

The marriage ceremony will reportedly take place at Umaid Bhawan palace in Jodhpur. It is learnt that a venue outside Mumbai has been deliberately chosen to keep media at bay.

Well, given Rani’s present Bollywood commitments, the wedding date of Feb 10, 2008, looks plausible. Rani is presently working in Kunal Kohli’s next movie (with Saif Ali Khan and Amisha Patel) and the shooting is likely to continue till December this year. After that one month would be sufficient to prepare for the wedding in February.

And since Rani hasn’t signed any other film except Kunal’s, she is expected to take a break from Bollywood early next year – possibly for her honeymoon.

RANI AND ADITYA’S HISTORY

Aditya Chopra has already been married once, to his childhood friend Payal, an interior designer. Friction developed in their 5-year-old marriage last year when the two began living separately and Aditya filed for a divorce. Media reports speculated that Rani was the cause of rift between Aditya and Payal, but these reports were strongly refuted by Rani’s mother and brother. Fresh reports linking Rani with Aditya surfaced when the two were seen hand-in-hand at New York’s Radisson Hotel last year during the making of the Yashraj Film Tara Rum Pum. To this day, both Rani and Aditya have not acknowledged their relationship in public.