‘English Vinglish’ : Heroine out of a housewife
View(s):Bollywood onetime superstar Sridevi returns in the lead role of ‘English Vinglish’, a entertaining movie made by first time director Gauri Shinde. The film is now being screened at Excell Cinema, Excell World Colombo.
Marking the comeback to Bollywood after 14 years and to Tamil cinema after 26 years, Sridevi features in the movie along with French actor Mehdi Nebbou, Adil Hussain, and Priya Anand. Amitabh Bachchan and Ajith Kumar make a guest appearances in the film which revolves around housewife Shashi Godbole, who enrolls in an English language course in order to please her husband and family.
Shashi (Sridevi)is a middle-aged Maharashtrian housewife who earns her own money by making sumptuous snacks and selling them to the connoisseurs. She is a dedicated yet taken-for-granted homemaker who is ridiculed for her poor English skills by their English speaking family.
Sashi finds herself being an object of constant potshots by her husband (Adil Hussain), who has little respect for her real talent and her 7th grade daughter Sapna who feels ashamed to even introduce her mother to her school folks.
So when an underestimated and belittled Shashi flies off to New York to lend a helping hand at her niece’s wedding, she sees an advertisement on a bus grabs the opportunity to enroll herself into English speaking classes that promise to teach the language within a period of four weeks.
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