Shweta Basu and the letter

The letter of Shweta Basu Prasad to the media has created a sensation and has become a top news.

Let us know little about Shweta. Shweta has started her career as a child artist. We have seen her in Kahani ghar ghar ki, where she played the character of Sneha, daughter of Om ( Kiran Karmarkar) and Parvati (Sakshi Tanwar). Later she acted in Makdee and Iqbal. Makdee got her national award. And the child star became popular. She has also done few south indian movies. She was recently caught,and was alleged of prostitution. She spent 59 days in Rescue home, and finally, the court dropped charges against her.

 Let us find out, what she actually feels, is she happy with the popularity, as some say, or she is angry.

So, we went through few old videos of Shweta and found out few things to gauge her normal behaviour pattern.
a. She uses her hands a lot while talking,which is good.
b. Her voice is low pitched
c. She laughs genuinely

And then, we saw another video of her after the incident. The video is just of  2 mins, but it tells a lot about how Shweta actually feels after the incident. Few things, which are noticeable at first where, less use of hands, less or fake smiling , high pitched voice etc. Now, let's see what more, could we decode.

1. "Nothing happened"

She shows a micro expression of disgust, when she says "whatever happened was unpleasant" "Nothing happened". The two mins clip is full of disgust. Shweta might portray she is ok, but she really hates whatever happened.

2. Pacifying

She scratches herself when she says, "You can move out of anything", the gesture like scratching, caressing, etc means self soothing i.e she is calming herself down while saying that. She is not at all ok, how good she might seem,

3. Sympathy

And this is a micro-expression of sadness, when she mentions sympathy. She says, people are giving her too much sympathy and she is not a rape victim to have such sympathy. But again, hidden emotion here is sadness.

4. The preening

When she says, "whatever happened was very unpleasant" she preens, which means adjusting or playing with hair. Girls do preening in two cases, either they are impressing someone or they are uncomfortable. Of course, Shweta is not trying to impress here anyone. She really is uncomfortable about the incident.

5. The Industry

We also see a micro- expression of sadness, when she mentions about the industry. Although she says they have been always there but she is sad about that.

6. The anger

And at last, we see the anger, when she says I pity them. The micro expression of anger can be caught as nostril have flared. She is trying to mask it with a laugh.

And then gives a flat fake grin by saying, they don't know I have wings.

How do we know, it's fake? Because, she looks different in her real happiness.

Now, this is her real smile. We caught this smile, when she was naming the artists she worked with, while making the documentary. The real smile is more widening of lips, tightening of cheeks, narrowing of eyes, forming of wrinkles around eyes etc.

So, the anger towards the media is backed by great amount of sadness as well as disgust.

Please click here for the video link.

We can't control the mishap, but we can control , how we look towards the person after that. A mouth may tell us different things, but a face never lies and so does the body.



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