Channel officials are equally clueless.

'It would be a big decision for Rakhi. There is new speculation every day about the climax of the show, but even we can't tell anything as of now. Ultimately what will happen on Sunday will be entirely Rakhi's call,' Nikhil Madhok, vice president (marketing and communications) of NDTV Imagine, told IANS.

'If she says she wants to marry the same day, we are all set with the preparations. If not, it's for her to decide because it's her life,' he added.

The preparations are grand. Whatever the decision, Rakhi will be dressed in a Neeta Lulla creation and wear jewellery designed by Farah Ali Khan, including a necklace worth Rs.3 million.

Of course, like any other grand Indian wedding, a multi-cuisine buffet dinner will be laid out. The menu, planned by Rakhi herself, will include Gujarati, Punjabi and Maharashtrian delicacies.

The guest list will be equally impressive, including TV celebrities as well as Bollywood stars. Rumours are rife that Bollywood's ace director Karan Johar, who invited Rakhi on his chat show 'Koffee With Karan' that saw A-list actors such as Shah Rukh Khan and Hrithik Roshan, is expected to be one of the invitees.

The show, the first of its kind in India, has brought unprecedented TRP (television rating points) success for NDTV Imagine. The premiere of the one-hour show saw ratings soar to 3.5 percent. The channel is hoping that Sunday's episode will be even better.

In the original American show, 'The Bachelorette', the contestant in many cases didn't get married or didn't last too long. There was one exception -- Trista Rehn who married physiotherapist Ryan Sutter in the maiden season of the show in 2003 and now has two children.

Will it be happily ever after for Rakhi too?

(Radhika Bhirani can be contacted at radhika.b@ians.in)