Big B shoots with Sridevi for Gauri Shinde's film English Vinglish

By now its common knowledge that yesteryears' diva Sridevi is making her big screen comeback with a film directed by Gauri Shinde (wife of director R.Balki). The film titled English Vinglish has Sridevi playing the role of a housewife, who in order to please her husband and family, enrolls for an English speaking course.

While the actress has begun shooting for the film couple of weeks ago, she was yesterday joined on the sets by none other than Amitabh Bachchan. Big B incidentally has a cameo in the film and shot with Sridevi yesterday after a gap of nearly 18 years when they last shared screen space in Khuda Gawah.

In the film, Big B plays the role of a fellow passenger who meets Sridevi on board a flight. Bachchan even tweeted about it last night, "Shooting today with the effervescent SriDevi after eternity almost for R Balki's wife's directed film 'English Vinglish'...SriDevi still the same … spontaneous and lovely ..!!"

Besides the scene with Big B, Sridevi also shot a few dance steps with ace choreographer Ganesh Hegde.

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According to sources, the film has been titled as English Vinglish and interestingly is said to be loosely inspired from the popular comedy tele-serial Zabaan Sambhalke. Hmm, now one can guess what will be the concept of Sridevi s movie, right" Yes, the bubbly diva will play a middle-class Indian housewife who is not well versed in English.

Her character in the movie is supposed to go America and so she secretly starts learning the language. In the end Sridevi surprises all with her English fluency and how she succeeds in doing so forms the crux of the story.

English Vinglish also throws light on some dysfunctional characters who takes up the Learn English in 2 weeks course along with Sridevi. The movie is laced with fun and hilarious situation, topped with Sridevi s comic timing dialogues.

Giving an example, the sources revealed that there is a scene where an American Consulate guy asks the actress You don t know English, how will you manage in our country" . For that she replies, You don t know Hindi, but seem to be managing just fine in ours !

Smart one, we say! Sridevi charmed us as Malini Iyer on small screen as a south Indian housewife. Now let s wait for her big screen comeback...

Source: IndiaGlitz