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http://www.telugucinema.com/c/publish/featurearticles/englis hvinglish_movie.php Summary: English Vinglish , Sridevi's comeback film after 15 years, is a treat of sorts for her fans and admirers. A wafer-thin story line, it is, but is backed ideally by its actors led by Sridevi. What's it all about? Sashi (Sridevi), the wife of Satish (Adil Hussain) and the mother of Swapna and Sagar (Shivansh Kotia), is a home-maker who runs a home-based business of cooking and selling laddus. She is looked down by her husband and teenager daughter for not being able to understand or converse in English, though her mother-in-law (Sulbha Deshpande) is generally supportive of her role of a homemaker. Sashi's sister Manu Desai (Sujata Kumar) is a widow living in New York with her two daughters Meera (Neelu Sodhi) and Radha (Priya Anand). Sashi has to go to New York to assist her sister in the preparations for Meera's wedding, all by herself, while her husband and children join her later. How a "free-thinking woman" Sashi manages to go to New York and copes with the language difficulties there forms the rest of the story. Performances Cast: Sridevi is back! The atilOka sundari still retains her charm, apparently! An aged Sridevi at times appeared like erstwhile actresses Kanchana, Seetha, or Hema Malini, but it's also worthwhile to note that they were all known as epitomes of beauty during their prime. Yes, she does appear aged (of course!) if one looks for the beautiful actress she was during the early 1990s, but well, we all travelled through the same two decades of age ourselves too! If one looks for the enchanting actress that she was back then, she's right there! Her natural expressions, her trademark all-knowing-yet-innocent looks, impeccable diction, suitable body language and so on – they continue to enthrall the audiences all the same in the film. Her age does particularly show up when she weeps but given that she's a mother of a teenage daughter in the film too, it doesn't appear any bit odd or inconvenient to see an older Sridevi. (Like Sridevi said earlier in an interview, Telugu audience are particularly used to seeing an aged Sridevi back when she was still in her late teens or early twenties, with her make-up matching the much-older stars that acted opposite her.) Both her first appearane on the screen and her English speech at the end were met with whistles and claps from among the audience! Her costumes (by Sabyasachi) were very apt and brought the right looks to her all through the film. Priya Anand as Sridevi's supportive niece is cute and fitting. Her presence is very different from what the Telugu audience may have seen in the past and is quite lovable. This film marks her debut into Hindi Cinema. Ajith , as a co-passsenger of Sridevi, is only around for a couple of minutes and takes a dig at the USA with his dialogue while he's at it, replying "To help America. To spend some dollars... To recover your economy." when asked for his purpose of visit to the USA. Adil Hussain as Sridevi's husband plays well the role of a typical Indian husband who does not particularly hold respect for his wife's talents or thinking, thereby being an inspiration to the teenage daughter in not respecting her mother appropriately. French actor Mehdi Nebbou appears as one of Sridevi's classmates, Laurent, at New York Learning Center (NYLC), who is impressed by Sridevi's beauty and simplicity and "makes [her] to know herself better". His expressions in certain emotional scenes are notable. Rajeev Ravindranathan as Ramamurthy, Sumeet Vyas as Salman Khan from Pakistan, Ruth Aguilar as Eva, Damian Thomson as Udumbke, Maria Romano as Yu Son, Ruth Aguilar as Eva appear as Sridevi's classmates at NYLC, while Cory Hibbs as David Fischer plays their instructor. Shivansh Kotia as Sridevi's young son Sagar impresses with his cute expressions. Most of the cast is not known to Telugu audience or even Indian audience, as the director has chosen to go with all new faces except for Sridevi and Ajith. (Amitabh Bacchan played Ajith's role in the Hindi version.) Yet, the cast put up a decent performance on the whole. Technical Departments: English Vinglish is the dubbed version of the Hindi flick by the same name. (In colloquial use, Hindi speakers use words whose initial consonant is replaced with "v" to rhyme with a preceding word. However, in Telugu, the common replacement is "g" and not "v". For example, a Hindi speaker may say "pyaar vyaar" but a Telugu speaker would say "prEmaa geemaa". In other words, this film could be named "English Ginglish" in Telugu if the makers wanted more authenticity to the Telugu title.) The story is wafer-thin and depends heavily on the screenplay to move forward. The lack of story line does not really bore the audience but the involvement in the proceedings is also hampered due to the lack of a solid story. The writer-director throws in several typical stereotypes and simplistic characters into the film. However, much care is taken even in minor scenes. (For example, when the English instructor introduces the word "entrepreneur", everyone in the class but the French man Laurent repeat the word several times to get it right; it's natural for Laurent to simply sit and watch because the word and its pronounciation are originally from the French language.) The director being a woman helped her rightly identify and present the kind of conflict Indian women typically face at the home front. Dialogues in Telugu are good in parts, though some bits and pieces remind the audience that they're watching a dubbed film. (For example, Sridevi using "tamaku" to playfully address her young son, instead of "meeku" or "tamariki" in the starting.) Sample these dialogues for both the dubbing effect and also for the depth that can be seen otherwise: Sridevi's mother-in-law: ee vayasulO pillalnada~rU tama ammaanaannalani siggugaanE bhaavistaaru. Sridevi: ammaanaannalani kaadu... ammani maatramE! Sridevi: pillalu amaayakulu anTaaru. idelaanTi amaayakatwam? mana balaheenatalanu gurtu chEstunTaaru! Sridevi: naa favourite subject-lO fail ayyi vE~rE subject-lO pass ayitE elaa? The climactic speech for Sridevi was written with much care; yet, the word "maybe", which is commonplace in colloquial (American) English usage but is not taught per se in English classes even in the USA, could have been avoided there. A few tounge-in-cheek racist comments (such as calling a plump white lady as "big white laddoo" or referring to the Chinese girl as "yellow", and showing a visual of an American holding a placard to provide him lunch, etc.) can be found in the film. Strings (Jeeturaj on violin and Subhajit Mukherjee on guitar) bring a lot of life into the background score through appreciable sound design. Songs are okay generally but have a strong, non-Telugu flavour, making the lyrics tough to perceive. Some lyrics however have notable expressions such as "(New York) ooriki mottam dishTi teesi buggachukka peTTaali". Lively visuals and crisp editing brought a better, smoother flow to the scenes. Bottom Line: English Vinglish is the story of a typical Indian homemaker-woman who craves for some loved, though not loud, acknowledgment from her family members. The film falls short if seen as a story of woman empowerment, but if seen as a story of one individual woman, it is pretty decent and is worth a watch. If all one wants to do is watch Sridevi again on the silver screen, wait not for another chance! Review by: NaChaKi Rating: 3.5/5 |
