❝When you don't like yourself... you tend to dislike everything connected to you. New things seem to be more attractive. When you learn to love yourself, then the same old life starts looking new... starts looking nice. Thank you for teaching me how to love myself! Thank you for making me feel good about myself.❞
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English Vinglish fills me simultaneously with joy and indescribable rage. Joy because Shashi prospers and finds her chosen family, and rage because her shit husband and shit blood family treat her horribly despite her efforts. She should've ended up with Laurent, who actually saw and listened to and loved her, instead of her stupid ungrateful husband. Sridevi really was a force to be reckoned with, and her performance in this film is undoubtedly the heart and soul. I've seen a lot of people saying she was the 'Meryl Streep of India', and while I adore Meryl I think Sridevi's in a league of her own; the rest of the cast are also very good, especially Adil Hussain. Overall, a very nostalgic film for me, and one I come to frequently.

❝When you don't like yourself... you tend to dislike everything connected to you. New things seem to be more attractive. When you learn to love yourself, then the same old life starts looking new... starts looking nice. Thank you for teaching me how to love myself! Thank you for making me feel good about myself.❞
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English Vinglish fills me simultaneously with joy and indescribable rage. Joy because Shashi prospers and finds her chosen family, and rage because her shit husband and shit blood family treat her horribly despite her efforts. She should've ended up with Laurent, who actually saw and listened to and loved her, instead of her stupid ungrateful husband. Sridevi really was a force to be reckoned with, and her performance in this film is undoubtedly the heart and soul. I've seen a lot of people saying she was the 'Meryl Streep of India', and while I adore Meryl I think Sridevi's in a league of her own; the rest of the cast are also very good, especially Adil Hussain. Overall, a very nostalgic film for me, and one I come to frequently.

Shashiyle laurentin olmasini bekledim yazik oldu adama nescoffe

Shashiyle laurentin olmasini bekledim yazik oldu adama nescoffe

i love sashi sm

i love sashi sm

Sridevi embodies Shashi so well, from the beginning where she seems so uncomfortable around her family but then lights up when given a chance to use her language unapologetically with that teacher to later on in New York as that internal light is given more chance to shine as she becomes more confident. I think its silly to think that she would up and leave her family for the french guy, but I had hoped that she would be able to channel the new confidence to confront her husband about how horrible he was to her.

Sridevi embodies Shashi so well, from the beginning where she seems so uncomfortable around her family but then lights up when given a chance to use her language unapologetically with that teacher to later on in New York as that internal light is given more chance to shine as she becomes more confident. I think its silly to think that she would up and leave her family for the french guy, but I had hoped that she would be able to channel the new confidence to confront her husband about how horrible he was to her.

All i could think about was the quote
  *“Often fathers and daughters look down on the mother together, they exchange meaningful glances when she misses a point, and they agree that she is not as bright as they are, and cannot reason as they do. This collusion doesn’t save the daughter from the mother’s fate” 
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I think the most important message was how she learnt to love herself, not because she learnt English but she realized that she is smart, she is greater than just being a housewife and making ladoos. If this was an American movie, Shashi would’ve left her family and followed her heart, but she was a woman with responsibility and she held onto that responsibility dearly because that’s all she had.

All i could think about was the quote
  *“Often fathers and daughters look down on the mother together, they exchange meaningful glances when she misses a point, and they agree that she is not as bright as they are, and cannot reason as they do. This collusion doesn’t save the daughter from the mother’s fate” 
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I think the most important message was how she learnt to love herself, not because she learnt English but she realized that she is smart, she is greater than just being a housewife and making ladoos. If this was an American movie, Shashi would’ve left her family and followed her heart, but she was a woman with responsibility and she held onto that responsibility dearly because that’s all she had.