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ObituarySujata is the sister of actor and singer Suchitra Krishnamoorthi.IANSTwitter/Suchitra KrishnamoorthiActor Sujata Kumar, fondly remembered for playing late veteran actor Sridevi’s sibling in the 2012 film English Vinglish, has died of cancer. The news was tweeted by her sister, actor and singer Suchitra Krishnamoorthi. Suchitra tweeted that Sujata had succumbed to cancer late on Sunday. "Our beloved Sujata Kumar has passed away and moved on to a better place leaving us with an unimaginable void. She left us an hour ago at 11.26 p.m. Life can never be the same again.” Our beloved Sujata Kumar has passed away and moved on to a better place leaving us with an umimaginable void. She left us an hour ago at 11.26 pm on the 19th of august 2018..Life can never be the same again ... — Suchitra Krishnamoorthi (@suchitrak) August 19, 2018 Suchitra, who is the former wife of filmmaker Shekhar Kapur, had earlier tweeted...

Eros International Media Ltd.(Eros International), a leading global company in the Indian film entertainment industry has announced a promising opening weekend of Rs. 27 crore gross worldwide for English Vinglish, the directorial debut of Gauri Shinde.

Produced by Eros International in association with R. Balki, the film released across more than 1,000 screens worldwide on 5th October 2012.

Hailed as Sridevi’s comeback movie, English Vinglish is the story of a middle-class woman who is skilled at many things but not the English language and is often the butt of jokes not only within her family but also in the outside world. It is a feel-good slice of life film that takes us on a journey with Shashi Godbole played by Sridevi, who not only wins the heart of New York where the film is set but millions of people around the world. Receiving a standing ovation at the Toronto film festival recently,...

Starring Sridevi, Adil Hussain, Mehdi Nebbou,Sujata Kumar

Directed by Gauri Shinde

There are no villains in English Vinglish. Only imperfect human beings like you and I, who make that common error of taking loved ones for granted.

Admit it. At some point in our lives we have all felt that if we don’t speak good English, we are not destined to be successful human beings. Imagine a housewife–beautiful, efficient, charming, supportive…imagine if she looks like…well, Sridevi and still feels she is being taken for granted just because she can’t speak fluent angrezi.

Shashi’s children find her embarrassing at times. Her husband openly cracks jokes about her accent and poor grasp of a language we should have thrown out with Tom Alter’s wig in Shatranj Ke Khiladi. Shashi’s husband thinks he’s just being urbane and witty. But it hurts. We see...