The film captures a modern day struggle experienced all too often by the un-American elite trying to make it in America: the language barrier. Sridevi’s character, Shashi, is made to feel insecure by society (aka family, friends) in her inability to speak proper English. As she takes strides to fix this — by enrolling in an ESL class — Shinde shows audiences one woman’s transformation from orally inept to orally mastering a language, and a culture, that was once foreign to her. (description via the Playlist)
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TIFF Trailer: English Vinglish Directed by Gauri Shinde
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