English Vinglish Movie

English Vinglish Movie Details :

English Vinglish Movie is an 2012 Indian comedy-drama film, writter and directer is Gauri Shinde. The narrative revolves around a woman named Shashi, a small entrepreneur who makes snacks. Shashi enrolls in an English-speaking course to stop her husband and daughter mocking her lack of English skills and gains self-respect in the process. The protagonist, played by Sridevi, was inspired by Shinde’s mother. English Vinglish was originally made in Hindi; later it was partially re-shot in Tamil and released along with a Telugu dubbed version on 5 October 2012. The film marked Sridevi’s return to filmmaking after a 15-year hiatus; it features Adil Hussain, French actor Mehdi Nebbou, and Priya Anand. Amitabh Bachchan and Ajith Kumar had cameo appearances in the Hindi and Tamil versions respectively.

English Vinglish premiered at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival, where it received a five minute standing ovation Before its release, the film was screened for the Indian press and critics. The film received widespread critical acclaim with reviewers praising Shinde’s screenplay and direction, Sridevi’s performance as well as the film’s soundtrack and cinematography. It became a major financial success as well, grossing 91.42 crore against a budget of 10 crore.

English Vinglish won all of the Best Debut Director awards of 2012 for Gauri Shinde. It was shortlisted as India’s official entry for the Academy Awards in the Best Foreign Language Film category. The film earned global acclaim at several international festivals and Sridevi was hailed as the “Meryl Streep of India” and the “female Rajinikanth in India”.

  • Directer : Gauri Shinde
  • Producer : Sunil Lulla,R. Balki,Rakesh Jhunjhunwala,R. K. Damani
  • Screenplay : Gauri Shinde
  • Story : Gauri Shinde
  • Starring : Sridevi,Mehdi Nebbou,Priya Anand,Adil Hussain
  • Music : Amit Trivedi
  • Cinematography : Laxman Utekar
  • Editer : Hemanti Sarkar
  • Casting : Rita Powers,Sean Powers
  • Production Design : Mustafa Stationwala
  • Art Direction : Shaibya Rakesh,Maggie Ruder
  • Set Decoration : Katie Kindle
  • Costume Design : Vera Chow,Nikita Raheja
  • Makeup Department : Vidyadhar Bhatte,LeeAnn Jemmott
  • Production Management : Arun Kumar,Lupe Salinas
  • Special Effects : Prime Focus
  • Visual Effects : Aditya Badekar,Tathagata Banerjee,Praveen Bareria,Swapnil Khotkar
  • Action Directer : Sean Michael Nugent
  • Production company : Hope Productions
  • Distributer : Eros International
  • Genres : Comedy,Drama,Family
  • Release date : 5 October 2012
  • Running time : 133 minutes
  • Country : India
  • Language : Hindi

English Vinglish Movie Wacth Online :

Star Cast of The Film :

  • Sridevi as a Shashi Godbole
  • Adil Hussain as a Satish Godbole, Shashi’s husband
  • Mehdi Nebbou as a Laurent, Shashi’s classmate
  • Navika Kotia as a Sapna, Shashi’s daughter
  • Shivansh Kotia as a Sagar, Shashi’s son
  • Priya Anand as a Radha, Shashi’s niece
  • Sujata Kumar as Manu, Shashi’s sister
  • Cory Hibbs as a David Fischer
  • Ruth Aguilar as a Eva
  • Sumeet Vyas as a Salman Khan
  • Rajeev Ravindranathan as a Ramamurthy
  • Damian Thompson as a Udumbke
  • Maria Romano as a Yu Son
  • Neelu Sodhi as a Meera
  • Ross Nathan as a Kevin
  • Maria Pendolino as Jennifer
  • Sulabha Deshpande as a Mrs. Godbole, Shashi’s mother-in-law
  • Ashvin Mathew as a Father Vincent, Sapna’s teacher at school
  • Cameo appearances
  • Amitabh Bachchan as a passenger on flight
  • Ajith Kumar as a passenger on flight (Tamil version)

Story of The Film :

The story of a quiet, sweet tempered housewife who endures small slights from her well educated husband and daughter everyday because of her inability to speak and understand English. She is resourceful and open-minded but somehow these traits don’t get noticed by them. Then one day on a trip to visit her sister in Manhattan she decides to enroll in an English Learners class and meets a host of new people who teach her to value herself beyond the narrow perspective of her family.

Production :

Development :

The story was inspired by Shinde’s mother, a Marathi-speaking woman who ran a pickle business at her house in Pune. Her mother was not fluent in English, which embarrassed Shinde as a child. In an interview, Shinde said, “I made this film to say sorry to my mother.” The film started development in 2011 or earlier, and several plot points and cameo appearances were decided early on. English Vinglish garnered much media coverage because of Sridevi’s comeback after nearly 15 years away from film production. The rights were sold to Eros International for 200 million.

English Vinglish also marked the Bollywood debut of South Indian actress Priya Anand, who previously worked in the Tamil and Telugu film industries. It is the directorial debut of Gauri Shinde, who previously worked as an advertisement filmmaker. It was shot mostly in New York.The film shooting concluded in October 2011 and it was released in Hindi and Tamil. It was later dubbed into Telugu.

Ajith Kumar, being a big fan of Sridevi, performed the cameo appearance without receiving payment. He even flew in for the shooting at his own cost.

English Vinglish Movie Songs / Music :

The soundtrack and background music were composed by Amit Trivedi and the lyrics were written by Swanand Kirkire for the Hindi version, Pa. Vijay for the Tamil and Krishna Chaitanya for the Telugu versions respectively. The album comprises six songs including a male and a female version of the title track “English Vinglish”. Both the versions of the soundtrack was released on 1 September 2012, in Mumbai, Chennai and Hyderabad.

All lyrics are writter is Swanand Kirkire; all music is composer is Amit Trivedi.

  • “English Vinglish” (Female) – Shilpa Rao
  • “Dhak Dhuk” – Amit Trivedi
  • “Manhattan” – Clinton Cerejo, Bianca Gomes
  • “Gustakh Dil” – Shilpa Rao
  • “Navrai Majhi” – Sunidhi Chauhan, Swanand Kirkire, Natalie Di Luccio, Neelambari Kirkire
  • “English Vinglish” (Male) – Amit Trivedi

“English Vinglish” Full Video Song :

  • Singer : Shilpa Rao
  • Music Composer: Amit Trivedi
  • Lyrics: Swanand Kirkire

“Navrai Majhi” Full Video Song :

  • Singer : Sunidhi Chauhan, Swanand Kirkire, Natalie Di Luccio, Neelambari Kirkire
  • Music Composer : Amit Trivedi
  • Lyrics: Swanand Kirkire

English Vinglish Movie Review :

This film review are Mostly Positive from Critics, IMDB Public Reviewing site give 7.8 Star Out Of 10 Star with Reviewers are 35,556.

After long gap of 15 years Sridevi’s flick has released.The story of movie is so cute.Family,friends anyone can watch this movie. The movie is about a married woman who doesn’t know English language and has always been humiliated by her daughter,hubby and people around her.. Later she decides to learn it and teaches a lesson to all people who humiliated her because of not knowing English well. This flick makes you realize that 1.Don’t ever accuse and make fun of people about their weakness who knows what they will be in future.. 2.Its you yourself who can make you learn and be successful.Don’t rely on anyone not even on family members. 3.Family love is everything else is worthless.

Critics Rating by Taran Adarsh, from Bollywood Hungama give 4 star out of 5 Star.

English Vinglish Movie Box Office Collection :

INDIA

ScheduleAmount (Lakhs/Crores)
First Day02 Crores 51 Lakhs
First Weekend13 Crores 06 Lakhs
End of Week21 Crores 00 Lakhs
Box office Nett34 Crores 86 Lakhs
Box office Gross48 Crores 42 Lakhs
Overseas Gross17 Crores 77 Lakhs
Worldwide collections Gross66 Crores 19 Lakhs
Budget26 Crores 00 Lakhs
Box Office VerdictSEMI HIT

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