{"id":208813,"date":"2025-12-29T01:37:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T01:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/208813\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T01:37:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T01:37:11","slug":"the-real-reason-kunal-nayyars-raj-is-single-in-the-big-bang-theory-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/208813\/","title":{"rendered":"The Real Reason Kunal Nayyar&#8217;s Raj Is Single In The Big Bang Theory Finale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                                             &#13;<br \/>\n                                                    &#13;<br \/>\n                            &#13;<br \/>\n                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"gallery-image \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/intro-1756336654.jpg\" data-slide-url=\"https:\/\/www.tvline.com\/2058501\/kunal-nayyar-raj-single-the-big-bang-theory-finale-reason\/\" data-post-id=\"2058501\" data-slide-num=\"0\" data-slide-title=\"The Real Reason Kunal Nayyar's Raj Is Single In The Big Bang Theory Finale: \" width=\"780\" height=\"438\" alt=\"Raj (Kunal Nayyar) sitting on a sofa on \" the=\"\" big=\"\" bang=\"\" theory=\"\"\/>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                    CBS<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Big Bang Theory&#8221; concluded its 12-season run with several of its central characters settled into marriages and family life, while Raj (Kunal Nayyar) remained single when the series came to an end.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview for the oral history book &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvline.com\/lists\/big-bang-theory-controversy-show-ending-cast-reaction-new-book\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Big Bang Theory: The Definitive Inside Story of the Epic Hit Series<\/a>&#8221; by Jessica Radloff, Nayyar explained that Raj needed more time to grow as a person before settling down.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I thought it was very astute that the one person who wanted love so badly realizes maybe he needs to love himself first,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It doesn&#8217;t have to come through someone else, and that&#8217;s a very lovely way to end a character&#8217;s storyline. He grew so much in those last few seasons as a character, and you saw him become less and less dependent on all the things he thought he needed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                The Big Bang Theory&#8217;s showrunner wanted to keep Raj&#8217;s story open<\/p>\n<p>                                             &#13;<br \/>\n                                                    &#13;<br \/>\n                            &#13;<br \/>\n                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"gallery-image \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/the-big-bang-theorys-showrunner-wanted-to-keep-rajs-story-open-1766428239.jpg\" data-slide-url=\"https:\/\/www.tvline.com\/2058501\/kunal-nayyar-raj-single-the-big-bang-theory-finale-reason\/\" data-post-id=\"2058501\" data-slide-num=\"1\" data-slide-title=\"The Real Reason Kunal Nayyar's Raj Is Single In The Big Bang Theory Finale: The Big Bang Theory's showrunner wanted to keep Raj's story open\" width=\"780\" height=\"438\" alt=\"Anu (Rati Gupta) smiling at Raj (Kunal Nayyar) on \" the=\"\" big=\"\" bang=\"\" theory=\"\"\/>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                    CBS<\/p>\n<p>For much of the run of &#8220;The Big Bang Theory,&#8221; Raj struggled with romantic relationships, including an inability early on to speak to women without alcohol. In its final season, he entered a serious relationship with Anu (Rati Gupta), but the couple split after she accepted a job in London and he decided not to uproot his life \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvline.com\/news\/big-bang-theory-recap-raj-anu-breakup-season-12-episode-22-1058222\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">especially for someone he wasn&#8217;t convinced was his soulmate<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Series co-creator Chuck Lorre also addressed the decision not to give every character a neatly resolved ending. Speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/tv\/tv-news\/big-bang-theory-series-finale-explained-chuck-lorre-how-it-ended-1211557\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>, Lorre said the creative team felt it was unnecessary to force closure in the finale.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Because of the way this finale was presented by [showrunner] Steve Holland, we didn&#8217;t feel like it was necessary to have some big story closure for every character,&#8221; he said. &#8220;That felt forced and somewhat unnecessary because sometimes big things don&#8217;t happen to everybody all at once. So Raj&#8217;s story just remains open.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; CBS &#8220;The Big Bang Theory&#8221; concluded its 12-season&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[146,85,46,411],"class_list":{"0":"post-208813","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}