Sridevi passed at 54 on 24 February 2018 due to accidental drowning in a bathtub.
Sridevi and Sujata Kumar who play sisters in the film passed around the same time around the same age. The film got three Nominations for the 2013 Filmfare awards, Best Film, Best Director, and Best Actress but Gauri Shinde won a special award for Best Debut Director.Ĩ. That is, doing the same part as Amitabh Bacchan did in Hindi.ħ. Tamil SuperStar Ajith Kumar did a cameo in the Tamil version of this film. Amitabh Bachchan and Sridevi acted opposite each other 20 years previously in Kudha Gawah in 1992.Ħ. In September 2013, English Vinglish was considered for short-listing for the Indian submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.ĥ.
Sridevi is making a comeback in this movie after 26 years in Tamil films, 18 years in Telugu films, and 15 years in Hindi films.ģ. The protagonist, played by Sridevi, was inspired by Gauri Shinde's mother a Marathi-speaking female who was not fluent in English and ran a pickle business.Ģ. Balki,Sunil Lulla,Rakesh Jhunjhunwala,Eros Worldwide,Curbside Films,Hope Productionsġ.
Her experiences of travelling in the local train, asking directions – those scenes are taken nicely and I could certainly relate to them well. I felt the family and peer pressure itself was good enough reasons for the character to learn English. In my many visits to the USA, though the tellers serving cash registers there could be robotic they were never rude as shown in the movie especially in a cultural melting pot like New York or LA. The need to travel to the USA comes out being forced in the script, all that happens in New York could have taken place in Mumbai or Bangalore or even Singapore. New York is shown beautifully in the movie. There she learns English in 4 weeks by going to a crash course and finally winning the attention and respect from everyone around her. In this context, she is invited to the USA by her sister for the wedding of her daughter. Her character has a superb cooking talent but the lack of English knowledge makes her own daughter make fun of her and she gets little attention from her husband. Sridevi has done the role of an innocent homemaker really well. It was that of a Homemaker’s search for self-respect from her own family & society at large. The storyline I read before the movie resembled “ Mind Your Language”, but the actual movie turned out to be a bit different. She is a brilliant actress of great talent whose last film was nearly 20 years back, so this movie carried big expectations from all quarters in both Kollywood and Bollywood. Sridevi was the sensation both in Tamil and later in Hindi film industry in the 80s. Today I saw the comeback movie of Sridevi, English Vinglish – the Tamil dubbed version.