The Extended Canon
English Vinglish
इंग्लिश विंग्लिश · 2012
A woman mocked at home for her English secretly enrols in a New York class and comes back with her dignity intact.
- Director
- Gauri Shinde
- Year
- 2012
- Genre
- Drama · Comedy
- Cast
- Sridevi, Adil Hussain, Mehdi Nebbou
Why it's in the canon
Sridevi's return after fifteen years, and a film about being condescended to by your own family.
A woman mocked at home for her English secretly enrols in a New York class and comes back with her dignity intact.
English Vinglish sits in the 2010s alongside Gangs of Wasseypur and Masaan — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Gauri Shinde.
- Released in 2012, in the 2010s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Drama, Comedy.
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