The film’s gay sensibilities are also spot-on.Īs is to be expected in a star vehicle, Devi features in almost every scene. But while the film’s sexual politics may be dubious it nevertheless addresses the real language issue facing modern ‘shining’ India, where most people of a certain class do communicate in English. Shashi is less ‘Shirley Valentine’, more Laura from ‘Brief Encounter’.įirst-time female director Gauri Shinde disappointingly adopts a sugary approach. If only! Since this is a mainstream Bollywood film, the conservative script never gives our female protagonist much of a choice. When her family arrive for the wedding, she must decide whether to go back to humdrum life in India or start a new life with her French beau. Her fellow students include hunky French chef Laurent (Mehdi Nebbou), who’s smitten with Shashi. When Shashi’s New York-based sister invites the family over for a wedding, Shashi travels ahead to be the wedding planner and secretly (why?) enrols in a four-week crash course in English, which improves not only her language skills but also her confidence. She lives for her husband and two kids, who take her for granted, making fun of her traditional ways, especially her broken English.
In Pune, India, Shashi (Sri Devi) is a middle-class ‘good’ Hindu housewife.
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