History Film / EnglishVinglish

The story is about an Indian housewife Shashi, who has a small home-run catering business for Indian sweets and snacks, but is condescended to by her husband Satish and daughter Sapna. [[ItMakesSenseInContext For a logical sequence of events]] she needs to spend 5 weeks in New York with her sister's family, helping with a niece's upcoming wedding. While there, she learns English in secret and gains everyone's respect.

* {{Bilingual Dialogue}}: A scene has an emotional Shashi speaking in Hindi and a supportive Laurent speaking in French, neither understanding the words but getting the intent. Lampshaded in-universe as being better than monolingual dialogue.
* {{The Cameo}}: Amitabh Bachchan cameos as the passenger next to Shashi on the plane. The Tamil version has Ajith Kumar instead.
* {{Chekhovs Gun}}: Shashi's son Sagar habitually scares her by leaping out of hiding and yelling. [[spoiler: She drops a plate of food at an awkward moment because of this]].
* {{Culture Clash}}: Averted. No drama over differences between culture.

* {{Title Drop}}: Shashi says "Enough of this English Vinglish" at one point.
* {{Token Minority}}: Udumbke, the least-developed character among the students in the English class, is a generic black dude from an unspecified country.
* {{Training Montage}}: More of an English-learning montage really. Shashi's rapid progress with her English class is summarized in a high-speed montage played over the title song.
* {{Translation By Volume}}: Played straight and lampshaded. Shashi calls up the English class, and the lady there recites the different classes they have at high speed. Shashi asks her to speak slowly. The lady repeats what she said, more slowly and more loudly. Shashi understands it this time.

English Vinglish is a 2012 UsefulNotes/{{Bollywood}} film starring Sridevi, Mehdi Nebbou, Adil Hussain, and Priya Anand. The film is written and directed by Gauri Shinde. It was Sridevi's first film after a 15-year hiatus from acting.

* SneakyDeparture: Shashi has to slip away from her sister's house to take English lessons with her niece's knowledge, [[spoiler:and succeeds every time]].

* SneakyDeparture: Shashi has to slip away from her sister's house to take English lessons with her sister's knowledge, [[spoiler:and succeeds every time]].

* {{Gratuitous Foreign Language}}: Half the film is in English and the other half is in Hindi, with some {{Gratuitous French}} thrown in.

* {{Gratuitous French}}: Laurent speaks in French with Shashi.

* {{Montage Out}}: The end titles play over the title, showing all the important characters from the movie for a second or two each.
* {{Multinational Team}}: The English class has two Indians, a Pakistani guy, a Chinese lady, a Mexican lady, a Frenchman, a generic African guy , and an American teacher. Completely averts {{Bulungi}}, {{Wutai}} and {{Qurac}} however. All characters are shown more in trying to assimilate to the US than in their backgrounds.

English Vinglish is a 2012 {{Bollywood}} film starring Sridevi, Mehdi Nebbou, Adil Hussain, and Priya Anand. The film is written and directed by Gauri Shinde. It was Sridevi's first film after a 15-year hiatus from acting.

* {{Anvilicious}}: A character disparages gay people, and Shashi rebuts him by saying "people may be different but heartache is the same". [[SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped Justified]] as this sequence is played to establish Shashi's character and outlook, not as a morality play.
* {{Big Lipped Alligator Moment}}: Pretty much the entire song "Manhattan", showing random stuff like a cat sitting on a guy's head, random women's legs, a beggar, some guy cosplaying as Edward Scissorshands, and a sequence of different types of coffee and different department stores in New York. None of these have anything to do with the plot.
* {{Bilingual Bonus}}: Half the film is in English and the other half is in Hindi, with some {{Gratuitous French}} thrown in.

* {{Training Montage}}: More of an English-learning montage really. Shashi's rapid progress with her English class is summarized in a high-speed montage played over the title song.

!Tropes appearing in 3 Idiots include:

* {{Bilingual Bonus}}: Half the film is in English and the other half is in Hindi.

English Vinglish is a 2012 {{Bollywood}} film starring Sridevi, Mehdi Nebbou, Adil Hussain, and Priya Raman. The film is written and directed by Gauri Shinde. It was Sridevi's first film after a 15-year hiatus from acting.

* {{Big Lipped Alligator Moment}}: Pretty much the entire song "Manhattan", showing random stuff like a cat sitting on a guy's head, random women's legs, a beggar, some guy cosplaying as Edward Scissorshands, and a sequence of different types of coffee and different department stores in New York.

* {{Big Lipped Alligator Moment}}: Pretty much the entire song "Manhattan", showing random stuff like a cat sitting on a guy's head, random women's legs, a beggar, some guy cosplaying as {{EdwardsScissorshands}}, and a sequence of different types of coffee and different department stores in New York.