India, Dec. 20 -- Actor Ananya Panday recently said she doesn't believe in hook up culture. Actor Janhvi Kapoor has publicly derided situationships as "a very retarded concept".

Bollywood's Gen Z mirrors the mood on the ground.

This cohort is stepping off the casual-sex conveyor belt and ditching disposable dating for stability, companionship and connection.

This may shock the urban-internet imagination but Gen Z is looking for something more solid than a one-night stand. The numbers say so, and the voices on the ground confirm it.

A Times survey comparing two decades of American dating behaviour found a U-turn in attitudes: Only 23% of Gen Z (18-27) said their friends commonly have one-night stands. Twenty years ago, 78% of millennia...