Rishi's converging dialect & diverging personality - Page 3

Originally posted by: Nels

Today's episode showcased the linguistic intelligence of Rishi. I know many of you will say that it was already shown when he spoke Uzbek, Mandarin and Bengali. Before posting the title of this topic, I ensured that it exactly refered to what I want to convey.

First an excerpt from Wiki page:

"Convergence refers to the process through which an individual shifts his speech patterns in interaction so that they more closely resemble the speech patterns of his interlocutor(s). People can converge through many features of communication such as their use of language, their "pronunciation, pause and utterance lengths, vocal intensities, non verbal behaviors, and intimacy of self disclosures", but they do not necessarily have to converge simultaneously at all of these levels. In fact people can both converge at some levels and diverge through others at the same time. People use convergence based on their perceptions of others, as well as what they are able to infer about them and their backgrounds."

Focusing on underlined aspects, today's episode very beautifully showed this subtle change. So far it was Rishi, whose dialect was typical Chandani-Chowk hindi vernacular. Today it was Ricky, one who speaks sophisticated language and very different from Rishi. Now you may wonder why is Ricky different from Rishi when they both are same person who loves Indira.

Yes, he was protective about her, her family and house from Sameer. He also confirmed that he loves Indira so he would not let Sameer close to her. But what disturbed me was he agreed to play a fair game. Game? Is this what he considered it? I agree he (probably) truly loves Indira and nobody wants to believe this. Sameer considers it fake because of Ricky's past and Indira considers it fake because of his irresponsible and indecisive nature. So to prove his true love, he accepts the challenge put forth by Sameer and also lays conditions. I wonder how would this turn out when Indira comes to know about it, even if Ricky /Rishi's feelings are true. This seems to me like playing with someone's emotion. Possibly I am hastily concluding but even if one has to just put up an act it's disturbing.

This is not the Rishi we know. Rishi is someone who supports what is right with out bothering about consequence. He just unconditionally wants to support and resolve problems of Indira. But today was only Ricky, who is rebellious brat. When he said that he was loved only by his mother and went to US to stay away from his father, his statement gave a feeling of arrogance similar to that of Indira. Also when he said he loves Indira, it sounded more like an obsession rather than proclamation. May be Indira's rejection has hit him hard that he wants every one to take his statements seriously.

I know most of you would say he wants to save her from the selfish reasons of Sameer but he would not let any one else also come close to Indira or reveal his identity. Today he was shown some what diverging from his real motive to arrive in Sharma house. May be I am wrong but promo gave an impression that he could not accept Indira's affirmation to his statement of leaving the house for ever.

Hats off to Sumit for very well bringing out the contrast in Rishi and Ricky 👏 both in person and language.

Originally posted by: -Rinky-

very well said...you have bereft me of words again 😛