Archive · 4 Oct 2026
Kiran Rao Says Young People Are Freer About Relationships
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.
Filmmaker Kiran Rao discussed changing attitudes toward relationships in an interview with IANS.
She was speaking while promoting Lust Stories 3.
Rao said she would describe young people as free and uninhibited, rather than frivolous.
She contrasted today’s relationships with expectations in her generation, when certain relationships were expected only after arranged marriage.
Rao said people today can have emotionally and physically fulfilling relationships without marrying first.
- Who
- Filmmaker Kiran Rao.
- What
- She discussed how young people’s romantic relationships and expectations have changed.
- When
- October 4, 2026; the interview was published that day.
- Where
- In an interview with IANS; no interview location was specified.
- Why
- Rao was discussing the younger generation and the relationship explored in her story while promoting Lust Stories 3.
- 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.