English Vinglish (2012)

A quiet, sweet tempered housewife endures small slights from her well-educated husband and daughter everyday because of her inability to speak and understand English.

Director:

Gauri Shinde

Writer:

Gauri Shinde

Stars:

Sridevi, Adil Hussain, Mehdi Nebbou

1 win & 1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Sridevi	...	Shashi Godbole
Adil Hussain	...	Satish Godbole
Mehdi Nebbou	...	Laurent
Priya Anand	...	Radha
Sulabha Deshpande
Sujatha Kumar	...	Shashi's sister - Manu
Navika Kotia	...	Sapna Godbole
Shivansh Kotia	...	Saagar Godbole
Cory Hibbs	...	David Fischer
Rajeev Ravindranathan	...	P Ramamurthy
Maria Romano	...	Yu Son
Sumeet Vyas	...	Salman Khan
Ruth Aguilar	...	Eva
Ross Nathan	...	Kevin
Damian Thompson	...	Udumbke

Storyline

The story of a quiet, sweet tempered housewife who endures small slights from her well educated husband and daughter everyday because of her inability to speak and understand English. She is resourceful and open-minded but somehow these traits don't get noticed by them. Then one day on a trip to visit her sister in Manhattan she decides to enroll in an English Learners class and meets a host of new people who teach her to value herself beyond the narrow perspective of her family.

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Plot Keywords:

housewife | chinese woman | chinese | chinese girl | marathi | 

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Genres:

Comedy | Drama | Family

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Certificate:

Not Rated

Details

Official Sites:

Official site Official site [fr]

Country:

India

Language:

Hindi English French Tamil Telugu

Release Date:

5 October 2012 (India)

Also Known As:

Aangilam Vaangilam

Filming Locations:

New York City, New York, USA

Box Office

Opening Weekend:

$745,414 (USA) (5 October 2012)

Gross:

$1,670,773 (USA) (19 October 2012)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Curbside Films, Eros International, Hope Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

134 min

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Quotes

Yu Son: You hear? Sir David and boyfriend break up! Sir David very sad.
Eva: I know.
Salman Khan: Nothing sad about gay. People breaking up... drop one and pick another!
Shashi Godbole: Salman... don't say that. No making fun... We are all different from each other. For you... David Sir may not be 'normal'... For David Sir... you may not be 'normal'... but feelings are all the same... and pain is pain...

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Connections

Features Source Code (2011)

User Reviews

Artistically Crafted. Sridevi's Spectacular Come Back,

The movie is about the women not from English background better say not well versed in English, but lives with the people of English background--- classified as 'Modern'. The movie prescribes the way society lives. And how the women is categorized if she not proficient in English.

How this women learns English, the situations she overcomes, beats the challenges is the excitation plot and the movie is designed alike 'grope we are up taking the travel along'.

I share that Director handled the script very carefully, efficiently, and we can feel the Director's personal touch for this.

The movie has humor, commitment, and a lesson one should learn before provoking other's weakness, the art of the person's earning self-respect we call.

Sridevi is the forever topnotch actress, a tagged 'natural' actress, and she proves it once again. She is indeed the backbone of the film.

Hats-off to Sridevi(take a bow madam--you deserve an award for this film, the Director of the film, Gauri Shinde too, besides this is her first movie and she is going to set the levels on her future projects), cast n crew for giving such a good movie.

A must go film with your FnF :-)