This movie was released in multiple languages. I saw this movie in the Tamil version. This movie is about a typical Indian woman who has trouble with English speaking and her New York expedition. The simple one line story is whether Sashi (Sridevi) succeeds her English learning mission? Coming to the lead role Sridevi has done it picture perfect in her role of a middle aged typical Indian women. She proves us that her acting skills are legendary through her expressions and dialogue delivery. Her casual looks suits the role perfectly. The whole movie we see her domination on screen. Priya Anand comes as Sridevi's niece and helps her to succeed in her mission. She didn't have much screen space yet delivers a decent performance and her casual advice to Sridevi about 'love after marriage isn't wrong' we see her American cultural influence. Other characters like the husband and daughter of Sridevi has fulfilled their roles in humiliating. Perfect group was the classmates of Sridevi all of them were so perfect in choice and did their part very well. The French cook with his love for Sridevi and the unknown language conversation between them was interesting. Surprise element in the Tamil version is Actor Ajith . He travels along with Sridevi to New York and comforts her during her flight with his comic sense. The only drawback we could feel when watching it in Tamil was we could not take the entire faces in the movie to be a Tamil people. The marriage ceremony was done in Marathi style where we cannot take that as Tamil culture. But we have to come face to face with the fact that this was a Hindi movie dubbed in Tamil. Except this cultural point the overall movie was clean in its scope and casting. Nice work by Director Gauri Shinde and team. We feel like when the movie ends as if we are out of the English class. Get in for a feel light entertainment drama from the house of "Cheeni kum" and "Paa". Verdict: "English Vinglish" Mission Spoken English accomplished .Definitely Sridevi sweeps it all. Reviewed by Balachandran Sivakumar
Review of English Vinglish
