It's been 18 years since Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Anil Kapoor were seen together in "Taal". Despite people absolutely loving their on-screen pairing in the Subhash Ghai flick, they only did one more movie together tided "Humara Dil Aapke Paas Hai", which tanked miserably at the box-office.

But looks like the two stars are all set to reunite on the celluloid in Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra's next project after 17

The movie titled “Fanney Khan" was announced by Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra last year, which also marks the directorial debut of Atul Manjrekar. The movie is coproduced by Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, Arjun N Kapoor and Prernaa Arora.

"We go on the floors by the year-end. It is a happy, slice-of-life film. We approached Aishwarya for the part and are glad she agreed to come onboard," Prernaa confirmed with a leading tabloid.

Industry grapevine suggested that the movie is based on the Hollywood musical comedy "Everybody's Famous", but the makers confirmed that they are tweaking the script to cater to the Indian audience.

In an interview with a leading entertainment portal, Aishwarya had said, "The last six months post-November was a very strong experience personally that I went through. So I had kind of shut down to my professional world and I don't have regrets. I've just started as of last week meeting with a couple of narrations again and there are two that I've already liked... now we have to see that it all works out schedule wise, very soon."