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Kiran Rao Says Young People Are Freer About Relationships

Kiran Rao Says Young People Are Freer About Relationships
Kiran Rao Says Physical Relationships Before Marriage Are No Longer Unusual: 'The World Is A Different Place' · news18.com

Kiran Rao talked about how young people think about love and relationships.

She was promoting a project called Lust Stories 3.

Rao said young people are freer about expressing themselves than people were in her generation.

She said she would call them free rather than frivolous.

In the past, people were often expected to have certain kinds of relationships only after an arranged marriage.

Rao said people today can have close emotional and physical relationships without getting married first.

She said her story explores two young people who are attracted to each other and the choices they make.

She described this change as part of a different world.

Key facts

Speaker
Kiran Rao
Project being promoted
Lust Stories 3
Interview outlet
IANS
Publication date
October 4, 2026
Rao’s description of young people
Free and uninhibited, rather than frivolous
Relationship expectations she described
She said people today can have emotionally and physically fulfilling relationships without marrying first.

Quotes

Kiran Rao

Filmmaker and director of a story in ‘Lust Stories 3’

“I feel there is a sense of freedom. There is a sense of being uninhibited in the young generation as compared to, say, my generation. I mean, the world is a different place, and the ways of expressing yourself are very different, and so we wanted to explore that.”
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“People have deep, intense, emotionally fulfilling, and physically fulfilling relationships without the need to be married first.”
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