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English Vinglish ∞ The Class for Earning Self Respect ∞
Gauri Shinde, as her first directorial debut has done a pleasant job to narrate a simple story in its most original and logical format without putting unnecessary Ohh & Laa Factor . The story telling is very compelling and adorable with a decent direction plot and balanced humor. Here I just want to congratulate her to being genuine and show respect for the cross-culture community without making them a part of ridiculous jokes. This is because any one who is reading this review must understand that America is not just about Hollywood, Burgers and Sex, the perception of majority lies with that because their popular cinema serves the same to the world.There are instances in the movie which reflects the richness of a civilized culture. As a lady director, she does not emphasis only on a woman or a melodramatic drama like our daily soaps but she successfully handles a story which is novel and family oriented. Also,the songs of the movie does not interrupt the flow of the movie they just move with the flow.
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English Vinglish ∞ The Class for Earning Self Respect ∞
Movie Review: English Vinglish *** 1/2 Rating
Theatre Release: 5 Oct 2012
Language: Hindi
Direction: Gauri Shinde
Label: Hope Productions| IBC Spotlight
Genre: Family Dram
Viewers Group: Family & All
The Critique Lab Score Board
AVA Score: :
8.17 (Max 10)
AVA Medal Honor™© : ŏ
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Recommendation Level : High (Read Review)
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“If we don’t love ourselves we use to attract towards new
things but as soon as we began to love ourselves we feel confident and old
things look prettier again.” This is one dialogue from the movie’s lead protagonist
which teaches how one can come back to his normal life; English Vinglish is a sweet
Laddu with almonds of a logical script, cashew nuts of nice music, raisins of
love and pistachios of Hope. English Vinglish is not about just English classes, it’s
just a metaphor or platform to narrate a simple yet very effective story of
self determination, self respect and love about family and love about
ourselves.
English Vinglish is undoubtedly a movie about the Family,
the children and their attitude towards their parents, the husband who does not
see his wife skills and potential beyond a born laddu maker and yes, it’s about
a mother who lost her identity as a woman in the society after marriage being a
house wife, as her world does not go beyond her family.
Shashi Godbole (Sridevi) is a simple middle class
housewife living with her husband Satish (Adil Hussain) along with her daughter
Sapna and a son named Sagar in Pune, India. She is an excellent cook searching
for her own respect among children and husband due to poor understanding of
English language. One day she got the call from her sister to visit New York to
attend her daughter‘s wedding, but she was reluctant to go alone because of her
poor English language, thou she finally agreed on her husband’s persuasion. In
New York, during her visit to a café she felt humiliated due to her understanding
of English language which brought a reason for her to fight against the odds and make a place for
herself. She left from there and suddenly saw an advertisement for four weeks English speaking classes and that’s how she got the way to prove herself by
learning a language which is
global now and a synonym of ‘Being
Modern’ in Indian societies called ENGLISH, for Her VINGLISH.
Gauri Shinde, as her first directorial debut has done a pleasant job to narrate a simple story in its most original and logical format without putting unnecessary Ohh & Laa Factor . The story telling is very compelling and adorable with a decent direction plot and balanced humor. Here I just want to congratulate her to being genuine and show respect for the cross-culture community without making them a part of ridiculous jokes. This is because any one who is reading this review must understand that America is not just about Hollywood, Burgers and Sex, the perception of majority lies with that because their popular cinema serves the same to the world.There are instances in the movie which reflects the richness of a civilized culture. As a lady director, she does not emphasis only on a woman or a melodramatic drama like our daily soaps but she successfully handles a story which is novel and family oriented. Also,the songs of the movie does not interrupt the flow of the movie they just move with the flow.
For Performances let’s start with Shri Shri Sridevi
ji, it would be very wrong to say that this movie is a comeback for
her, not a moment you will feel that she ever had gone from the cinema or your
heart. She is an absolutely delight to watch as a middle class mother in her
most natural form of acting. Anyone could relate with her as a mother, wife or a
friend. Despite there were no dialogues of melodrama still she successfully
makes your heart cry and eyes wet. She is awesome, we love her.
Adil Hussain as Satish & Shashi’s husband is effective and Shashi’s Daughter Sapna in her stubborn and arrogant avatar justifies
the role but its master Shivansh Kotia as Shashi’s son Sagar who will definitely make you smile with his adorable act. He is
one of the sweetest kid debutant this year in cinema.
Priya Anand as Shashi’s niece did an
impressive job despite sharing screen with Sridevi and yes, French Actor Mehdi
Nebbou as Laurent and Shashi’s Class mate made an impressive entry in
Indian cinema.
All other actors like Sujata Kumar as Shashi’s
Sister, Coy Hibbs as teacher, Rajeev Ravindranathan as P. Ramamurthy
,Summit
Vyas as Salman, Damian Thompson as Udumbke, Maria
Romano as Yu Som, Neelu Sodhi as Meera , Ross
Nathan as Kevin, Mariz Pendlino as Jennifer and Sulbha
Deshpande ji as Shashi’s Mother in Law does a decent job.
Regarding Music, Swanand Kirkire, the lyrist and Amit
Trivedi as music composer delightfully served you fresh and novel songs. ‘Navrai Majhi’ with traditional beat is
excellent. Most of the songs are made up of 2-3 words liners compositions like Gustakh Dil, English Vinglish title track, Manhattan
which is a unique factor, kudos to Swanand. Sound Design by Academy award winner
Resul
Pookutty is worth mentioning.
Cinematography by Laxman Utekar is decent and Editing
by Hemanti
Sarkar is noticeable.
Story and Screenplay by Gauri Shinde is worth mentioning and had few moments which could be recollect
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Amitabh bacchan and Sridevi ‘s shot in plane while she was going to New York
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Shashi‘s visit to café and the humiliation she
faced while ordering the sandwich and coffee.
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Shashi’s visit to her daughter School for PTA
and her realization of failure being a mother
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Shashi’s realization of being an entrepreneur
then just being a Laddu Maker
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Shashi’s respect for her gay teacher and the way
she makes other students understand the importance of humanity.
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Shashi’s revelation
to get self respect than Love when her niece asked if
he began to love her classmate Laurent (Mehdi
Nebbou)
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And of course the climax speech of the Shashi
during her niece wedding.
Overall, English Vinglish is a memorable watch for the
genuine script, superb performances, nice music and definitely the feel good
factor it has. In Last scene, Shashi requests the air hostess a
Hindi newspaper in English Language, and that’s we called in Sridevi’s
MJ Style without getting ‘Judgemental’ –YoOO.
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Wooww what a comeback for Sridevi Ji n what a review ;)
ReplyDeleteHighly admirable review. To the point, objective and sufficiently detailed.
ReplyDeleteJitendra
Nice detailed Review on English Vinglish. Congrats for the Review of the Day :)
ReplyDeleteCongrats for ROTD
ReplyDeleteExcellent review Ava. Best in MS on this movie. i just came after watching the mve and i loved it.. your review justifies d mve. Sridevi is superb both in acting n looks .. so is rest of the cast..
ReplyDeleteCongrats for ROD...
VG
Well, the film has been appreciated by all who have seen the film but unfortunately the collections are not so good, which is a sad sign because a well made film has been rejected by majority of cine lovers. But that has not taken the pluses away from the film as the reviews have been good. Your take on the film is admirable and shows that you too have loved the film.
ReplyDeleteI am watching it tomorrow because I have never bothered about the result at Box Office.
Congrats on ROTD status given to this review.
Regards/Ajeet
Good review..am glad that Sridevi got a good come-back vehicle
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