The Bollywood superstar Aamir Khan and his ex-wife Kiran Rao got separated in 2021 after being married for 15 years but they both are still good friends and recently during an interview, Kiran Rao talked about her life after divorce and also about her movie “Laapataa Ladies”.
Kiran Rao made her directorial debut with “Dhobi Ghat” in 2010 and “Laapataa Ladies” which got released in March 2024 was her second movie as a director. Both the movies didn’t perform well at the box-office and during the interview, while talking about “Laapataa Ladies”, Kiran Rao accepted the responsibility of the failure of the movie.
She called her divorce with Aamir a happy divorce as she said, “It’s been a very happy divorce. I feel relationships need to be redefined from time to time because we change as human beings as we grow. We need different things and this (divorce) is what I felt would make me happy and has made me very happy, honestly.”
Kiran Rao further said that loneliness is what people are worried about when they get divorced but now she has her son, Azad because of which she doesn’t think about loneliness. In her words, “Before Aamir, I was single for a very long time. I really enjoyed my independence. I was lonely, but now I have Azad, so I tend not to be lonely. I think loneliness is the only thing that most people are a bit worried about when they get divorced or lose a partner. I haven’t felt lonely at all. In fact, I am supported by both families, his family and mine. So, actually, it has been only good stuff. It’s been a very happy divorce.”
However, she accepted that it was not easy for both of them and it took them some time to get there emotionally and mentally. Kiran Rao said that though she and Aamir are divorced but she doesn’t need paper for the purpose of defining their relationship. She said, “There’s a lot of love, lot of respect, there’s a lot of shared history, shared laughs, shared ideology, there’s lots of things that we look for in each other. So, I didn’t want to lose that. When I was secure enough to say, ‘Yeah, we don’t need the paper to say that we are married but we know what we mean to each other’… This is a partnership which will stand the test of time despite the divorce.”
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It is really rare to hear about happy divorce, isn’t it?
