Actor and politician Kangana Ranaut has opened up about love, marriage, and what she thinks is going wrong with relationships today. In a recent conversation with Fever FM, she said that social media has built a false picture of romance that is hurting real couples.
Kangana said that one of the biggest threats to relationships today is the pressure people feel after scrolling through carefully staged content on social media. She argued that proposals on one knee, expensive rings, exotic vacations, and other grand gestures have become a kind of standard that most couples then measure themselves against.
She said people need to step back from that version of love entirely. In her view, when someone sees a highlight reel of another couple’s life, they start questioning their own relationship, even if nothing is actually wrong with it.
“A lot of relationships suffer today because people constantly compare their lives to what they see online and think, ‘Why isn’t my life like that?'” she said.
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She added that this kind of comparison does real damage. Instead of recognising what they have, people end up focused on what they feel is missing.
Her own story: Hate at first sight
Kangana also took aim at the idea of love at first sight, calling it a cliche that does not reflect how real relationships actually develop.
She said her own story did not begin with an instant spark. In fact, she described it as the opposite. “My story wasn’t ‘love at first sight.’ It was probably ‘hate at first sight.’ Then it became love,” she said.
She dismissed the kind of romantic storytelling that people often hold up as a template. “All of those cliches are nonsense,” she said plainly.
Her point was that real love does not always arrive as a neat, cinematic moment. Sometimes it builds slowly, and sometimes it starts from friction or even dislike.
Every relationship is its own thing
A large part of what Kangana spoke about was the idea that no two relationships are alike, and that trying to copy someone else’s is a mistake from the start.
She pointed out that every person comes from a different home, with different parents, different values, and a different set of life experiences. Two people who come together bring all of that with them. Because of this, she said, relationships are deeply personal by nature.
“Every family is deeply personal. Every mother is different. And, every father is different. No two people have the same upbringing, careers or partners,” she said.
She used a simple but direct comparison to explain her thinking. Just as clothes are cut to fit one body, a relationship is shaped around the two specific people in it. What holds one couple together may mean nothing to another.
“Relationships are so personal and so tailor-made that they only fit the two people involved. Just like your clothes fit only you, your relationship is unique to you,” she said.