Aamir Khan is getting married again and true to his persona and image, he’s doing it entirely on his own terms.

The 59-year-old actor and his partner Gauri Spratt have decided to formalise their relationship in the most understated way possible, a registered marriage at home, surrounded by just their two families and a handful of close friends. No fanfare, no filmi spectacle. Just a quiet signing, a small gathering, and a new chapter beginning in the same living room where, by all accounts, it has already been unfolding for a while.

According to a source close to the family, Aamir and Gauri have been living together as a family for just over a year now. “They have built a happy, stable life together and simply decided to mark it formally with their families present,” the source told us. The ceremony is set for July 5 and will be held at Aamir Khan’s residence.

Gauri, 47, brings her own quietly remarkable story to this union. She has a seven-year-old son, Quinn, from a previous marriage. And her family history carries a thread that feels almost novelistic in the context of an India-set love story. Her grandfather, Philip Spratt, was a British-born Communist who came to India in the 1920s and ended up fighting for the country’s independence. He was a man who crossed an ocean and chose a cause that wasn’t his by birth but became his by conviction. There’s something fitting about his granddaughter now making India her home too, in the most personal sense of the word.