CR: Shruti â¤ď¸
Exhibit A: we have Rishabh looking at Prerna with such concentrated frustration and hurt that it's hard to look away from it. His eyes soften as he speaks as says 'maybe I just want you to know me' and he makes it obvious in the way he looks at her in the bottom gif. He's taken the fact that she's allowed him in her space, and used it so she can't run away from what he's trying to hammer into her head. And for once she actually responds, she's listening. It's not in what she says but it's in how she reacts in this scene. Her eyes look up at him and they stay there. She may have started the facade because she saw A first, but she stayed in it because Rishabh compelled her to. She for a moment, reacts to what he's saying and their eyes don't break contact UNTIL ....
Exhibit B: Rishabh breaks contact first, having seen A, having understood the facade, having known that the man had followed his wife. Look how he shifts. There is no malice in his gaze, no hatred, no disgust. Unlike A and Prerna, Rishabh doesn't feel things to extremes. He doesn't hate or love in equal fervor. He barely even likes people. So when he turns to A there is no anger, no contempt, there are just facts. What are you doing, running behind my wife? But it's at the last word, wife, where he locks his jaw, suddenly remembering who Prerna is in this equation and whose relationship with her holds more weight. There is firmness, there is a marking of territory and there is an acknowledgment of something A will never have. When Rishabh was leaving the house he had told A to smile more, that A was surrounded by so many people who loved him, but here Rishabh knows, actively pushes and calls for the one relationship A wants most but will never have. It's a subtle nod, but an effective one. Rishabh looks at the unhinged man that has become of the young Basu and says, here is the one thing you can never have claim to, the one relationship that will never be yours. Just perfect đ
Bade Achhe Lagte Hain
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