What led Adi to suddenly marry Rani in Italy?

They have cried wolf so many times that when Rani Mukerji finally married Aditya Chopra " with whom she was in a serious relationship for close to a decade " in an unassuming ceremony on April 21 in Italy, it took a little time for the industry to digest the fact.

The proceedings for Adi's divorce from his first wife Payal took three years. It also took that much time for Yash and Pam Chopra to warm up to their second bahu-to-be.

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So, what triggered their sudden decision to marry? Well, three weeks ago, Rani's father Ram Mukerji, who is fitted with a pacemaker, collapsed and was immediately hospitalised. He kept repeating, "The only thing I want before anything untoward happens to me is to see my daughter married". And, in what can only be described as true filmi style, standing by his bedside, Adi promised the senior Mukerji that the dilwala would take his dulhaniya away, with the blessings of both their parents.

On Friday night, the Mukerjis and the Chopras decided that the venue would be Italy. On Saturday night, Krishna, Ram and Raja Mukerji took a flight as did Pam and Uday Chopra. Karan Johar also flew the same night. A priest accompanied the families and the wedding took place according to Bengali tradition.


An insider says, "We knew that the marriage was taking place this weekend. Pam cancelled the usual Saturday film screening that she holds at Yash Raj Films (YRF) for the khandaan. No friends or relatives other than the immediate family were alerted about the wedding."

Of course, everyone knew that this would be the final outcome.

After all, Rani is addressed as 'malkin' (mistress/owner) by all and sundry at YRF. She had been reportedly living in with Adi at his Vikas Park residence, which is diagonally opposite her own Theosophical Colony home, for years now.




Rani's family, as we have often reported in Bombay Times, is more important than that of the Pope's at Yash Raj. Her brother Raja has bagged a job at YRF. Her mother Krishna, nattily dressed in kurtis and skirts, is the one looking after Pam at the weekly film screenings. And, domestic help flies in and out of the screenings looking after Rani's niece (her brother Raja and bhabhi Jyothi's child).


Here's wishing Rani and Adi a blissful married life.

Statement from Aditya Chopra's production house: "We are happy to announce that Mr Aditya Chopra and Ms Rani Mukerji got married last night on 21st April in Italy. The wedding was a very small intimate affair with very close family and friends. We wish the couple a very happy married life."

Rani Mukerji's statement: "I would like to share the happiest day of my life with all my fans all over the world whose love and blessings have been part of my journey all these years. I know that all my well-wishers who have waited for this day will be really happy for me. It was a beautiful wedding in the Italian countryside with just a few of our close family and friends with us. The one person I missed terribly was Yash uncle, but I know he was there with us in spirit and his love and blessings will always be with Adi and me. I have always believed in fairy tales and with God's grace, my life has been exactly like one, and now, as I enter the most important chapter of my life, the fairy tale continues."

Rani's uncle Rono Mukerji expressed shock and disbelief when he heard that his niece had got married in Italy. "I don't know anything, you are giving me news. How strange it is that an uncle doesn't know about his niece's wedding. I am not keeping well. Even Ram is on a pacemaker; so I don't know if he has gone for the wedding. They haven't informed me," he said