2012·Comedy·2h 14m
7.2
★
In the United States for the first time, an Indian housewife with a limited command of English turns Manhattan into her personal language school.
Directed by Gauri Shinde
classroom
housewife
speech
foreign language
wedding
xenophobia
manhattan, new york city
social differences
woman director
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Cast
Sridevi
Shashi Godbole
Mehdi Nebbou
Laurent
Sujata Kumar
Manu Desai
Priya Anand
Radha Desai
Adil Hussain
Satish Godbole
Navika Kotia
Sapna Godbole
Cory Hibbs
David Fischer
Rajeev Ravindranathan
P Ramamurthy
Sumeet Vyas
Salman Khan
Ruth Aguilar
Eva
Maria Romano
Yu Son
Damian Thompson
Udumbke
Crew
Gauri Shinde
Director
Gauri Shinde
Writer
Laxman Utekar
Director of Photography
R. Balki
Producer
Amit Trivedi
Music
Shilpa Rao
Playback Singer
Sunidhi Chauhan
Playback Singer
Popular Reviews
198 reviews
pleiades
8.0★ · 05/20/26
❝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.
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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.❞
· · ───── ·₊⊹ ⋅𖤓⋅ ⊹₊· ───── · ·
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.
· · ───── ·₊⊹ ⋅𖤓⋅ ⊹₊· ───── · ·
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.
Leen
7.0★ · 06/27/26
Ending was lwk ass
Ending was lwk ass
Adrien Rosier
3.0★ · 06/24/26
Tf u mean she didn’t choose the guy who was obsessed w her but her fuckass abusive husband and shitty family??
Tf u mean she didn’t choose the guy who was obsessed w her but her fuckass abusive husband and shitty family??
Rxhiii
5.0★ · 06/02/26
She should've left her husband!!
And I'll die on that hill
And I'll die on that hill
She should've left her husband!!
And I'll die on that hill
And I'll die on that hill
zeynep
10.0★ · 05/10/26
Shashiyle laurentin olmasini bekledim yazik oldu adama nescoffe
Shashiyle laurentin olmasini bekledim yazik oldu adama nescoffe