English Vinglish

English Vinglish is a 2012 Indian comedydrama film, written and directed by Gauri Shinde. The films narrative revolves around a housewife who enrolls in an Englishspeaking course to stop her husband and daughter mocking her lack of English skills, and gains selfrespect in the process. The protagonist, played by Sridevi, was inspired by Shindes mother. English Vinglish was originally made in Hindi later it was reshot in Tamil and released along with a Telugu dubbed version onOctober 2012. The film marked Sridevis return to filmmaking after a 15year hiatus it features French actor Mehdi Nebbou, Adil Hussain, and Priya Anand. Amitabh Bachchan and Ajith Kumar had cameo appearances in the Hindi and Tamil versions respectively.

Shashi Godbole Sridevi is a housewife who makes and sells laddoos as a homerun business. Her husband Satish, Adil Hussain and daughter, Sapna Navika Kotia take her for granted, mock her poor English skills and generally treat her with disrespect, making Shashi feel negative and insecure. However, her young son, Sagar Shivansh Kotia loves her as she is, and her motherinlaw Sulabha Deshpande offers her words of sympathy.Shashis older sister Manu Sujatha Kumar, who lives in New York, invites Shashis family to her daughter Meeras Neeju Sodhi wedding to Kevin Ross Nathan. It is decided that Shashi will go to New York alone to help Manu organize the wedding, and her husband and children will join her as the wedding approaches. During her flight to America, Shashi is given inspirational advice by a fellow passenger Amitabh BachchanAjith Kumar. While Shashi is in New York, she has a traumatic experience at a coffee shop due to her inability to communicate in English. Using the money she made from selling laddoos she secretly enrolls in a conversational English class that offers to teach the language in four weeks, showing her resourcefulness at navigating an unfamiliar city alone. The class comprises David Fischer, the instructor Cory Hibbs Eva, a Mexican nanny Ruth Aguilar Salman Khan, a Pakistani cab driver Sumeet Vyas Yu Son, a Chinese hairstylist Maria Romano Ramamurthy, a Tamil software engineer Rajeev Ravindranathan Udumbke, a young AfricanCaribbean man Damian Thompson and Laurent, a French chef Mehdi Nebbou. Shashi quickly becomes a promising and committed student, earns everyones respect with her charming behavior and her cuisine, and gains selfconfidence. Laurent becomes attracted to Shashi. When he tries to kiss her at the rooftop of a building, Shashi pushes him away and runs off, but fails to explain that she is married. ........

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