I feel awkward during Rishabh's scenes. Like in today's episode, I seriously cringed at him shouting at Preeta for telling him to stop worrying about the wound. I know he cares about Preeta. Him worrying is also warranted. But the way he showed his worry, just feels like an easter egg to the fact he may become obsessive in the future. I feel like in RIshabh's mind, he thinks his worry/care for Preeta is higher than everyone else's. He's done this before too. Like when it was Karan freeing Sarla from jail, rather than him when Preeta begged Rishabh to do so.
Plus the fact that when Karan has been hurt, Rishabh is first worried about Karan's career, rather than Karan himself. I'm not saying Rishabh doesn't love his brother. He does, and would do anything for Karan. However, it is fathomable that Rishabh's "love for Preeta may eclipse his love for Karan, in future tracks.
I say this because so far all we've seen of Rishabh is him moping around for Preeta and why he didn't confess his love to Preeta. He's been passive for the most part, having only told the truth to his father. After this track is over, I think a major possibility is RishTa's rishta. My prediction is that his father will ask Sarla to get Rishabh married to Preeta, considering Preeta's engagement broke off too. Sarla would agree, always thinking Rishabh is perfect. Karan and Preeta's feelings will grow (considering we finally got a strong sign that Preeta has begun having feelings for Karan). Karan will be repressing his feelings until the wedding day, in which somehow Karan's love for Preeta will be revealed to all (maybe by Sameer and Shrishti), and Rishabh would selflessly step aside. If this happens, basically he will be holding on to his heartbreak, and smiling for his family, post PreeRan wedding, which is basically him right now. The future villain will use Rishabh's feelings to break PreeRan up or to break up the Luthra house.
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