Much of Shashi's inner power comes from Sridevi owning the role. "English Vinglish" a delectable geographical and emotional journey undertaken with a refreshing absence of bravura and selfcongratulation. Sridevi simply sinks into the Big Apple, biting off juicy mouthfuls of New York's sobering cultural grace absorbing the cultural shock with a dignity that films about journeys tend to undervalue.
This woman is far more special than the bored housewives who look for an alibi to burst into their own version of 'Kaaton se kheench key yeh aanchal' to justify their succulent bites into the forbidden fruit. And so when the awards fall into Sridevi's lap at the yearend the nomination clip won't be the woman who suffers wracking trauma stereotype. The miracle of watching "English Vinglish" confer such a supple and contoured shape to Shashi's life is attributable to the director's high-concept theme and treatment. It's all very routine, recognisable and familiar. The narration doesn't try to pin its resplendent protagonist's life down to boomarked vignettes suggesting a violent need to be liberated from her domestic life. And no, the husband, played by Adil Hussain, brilliant in a thankless role, is not a cad sneaking into another woman's bed. No case-history of domestic torture is built for our heroine. Shashi's ennui is not the in-your-face tragic pathos of Madhabi Mukherjee in Satyajit Ray's "Charulata" or Shabana in "Ek Pal". In what I rank as the best debut by a female director since Aparna Sen's "36 Chowringee Lane", Shinde imbues a majestic mellowness and an unostentatious glow to the story of Shashi's coming-of-age saga. Sure, Shinde gets a tremendous boost from cinematographer Laxman Utekar who captures New York in its quiet mellow state of bustling grace composer Amit Trivedi's music simply and fluently melts into the theme and storytelling and editor Hemanti Sarkar cuts the footage the way Shashi would cut her vegetables, precisely, lovingly and without anxiety. And then as a bonus, she proves herself a master storyteller. Shinde wins over the audience at the story level itself. This is the complete middle-class woman's fantasy. A five-week vacation in the US, a clandestine crash course in English and best of all, a chance to feel wanted and special when a fellow-classmate, a quietly striking French chef, gives Shashi the attention she doesn't get from her husband.
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Shashi breaks up a little every time the three most important people in her life - her husband, daughter and son - crack up at her vernacular accent. The betrayal of the unforgettable woman in "English Vinglish" is far less dramatic and therefore much more profoundly deep-rooted. The issues in those films about unfulfilled wives were largely socially-defined - infidelity, adultery and betrayal. Shabana Azmi used to do such films in the 1970s. "English Vinglish" is a fabulous fable of a woman's self-actualization. Director Gauri Shinde brings to the comfort of the familiar a feeling and flavour of wonderment, discovery and beauty. We see that hurt in Sridevi's eyes each time she is slighted and snubbed by those whom she loves the most. Shashi's husband thinks he's just being urbane and witty. Her husband openly cracks jokes about her accent.
Shashi's children find her embarrassing at times.
Imagine a housewife - beautiful, efficient, charming, supportive - and imagine if she looks like, well, Sridevi and still feels she is being taken for granted just because she can't speak fluent Angrezi. At some point in our lives we have all felt that if we don't speak good English, we are not destined to be successful human beings.
Only imperfect human beings like you and I, who make that common error of taking loved ones for granted.Īdmit it. Oct 5 (IANS): There are no villains in "English Vinglish". Film: "English Vinglish" Cast: Sridevi, Adil Hussain, Mehdi Nebbou, and Sujata Kumar
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