What I want to introduce to you today is an Indian film, but its starring role has attracted more attention these days than the film itself.
Because just a few days ago, a big name in the movie left us, her name, called Ciri Daiyu.
Soon after the news of Shri Daiyu's death reached India, the whole country fell into grief, and the Indian prime minister tweeted a special recommendation to commemorate the great Indian actor.
CCTV also reported the news for the first time.
Judging from the latest investigation report, the results are lamentable.
Red face and thin life... Red face and thin life...
It is not surprising to say that Sheri Dai Yu's life is summed up as "legendary", she is the first female superstar in the Indian film industry, and she also enjoys the reputation of "Queen of Bollywood" in India with her amazing output.
He debuted at the age of 4 and participated in more than 200 movies in his lifetime.
The 1980s and 1990s can be seen as the pinnacle of Shri Daiyu's career. With many masterpieces, she once became one of the most beautiful actresses on the Indian screen.
However, like Garbo and Lin Qingxia, Xili Daiyu, who was at the peak of her career at that time, chose to leave the film and television circle at this time, which is 16 years.
During her retirement, she lived the life of a husband and son, and although she occasionally participated in recreational activities in her country during this period, she was no longer seen on the screen.
Until 2012, she used a movie to re-kill the film world, and she returned again, and because this movie once again ignited people's expectations of her, who could have imagined that this would become her last song in the world...
Indian English
<h1>English Vinglish</h1>
Here is a special poster, because its Chinese translation name is very interesting, "Save the Dish English" - both ridiculed the authorities, but also expressed the main theme of the film, the ability to associate with the Bay Bay, I am still very convinced, but I am bitter Ms. Cai, lying on the gun alive.
Interestingly, when you look at Ciri Daiyu's resume on Douban, you will find that this movie is the highest rated of all her movies.
Although it is big enough in India, it is a thing of the past after all, and it is quite normal that young people in China do not know.
Indian English focuses on a middle-aged Indian housewife named Shahi who has a family that looks happy to outsiders: her mother-in-law cares for her very well, her two children are naughty but cute, and her husband works for a big business and is a successful person with a decent job.
From an outsider's point of view, there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with living in such a family. But it was cold and warm, as long as Shahi himself knew.
Despite his success, her husband treats his wife with uncompromising machismo. According to his understanding, as a housewife, you should be honest at home, and there is no need to go out to earn extra money to subsidize the family. For the wife's heart, the husband pays little attention to it, and over time, the couple's relationship falls into a backwater.
In addition to the red light on the relationship between husband and wife, Shashi's children also made her feel cold. The younger son is too young to understand things, and the eldest daughter often makes fun of herself because she does not understand English.
When the school held a parent-teacher conference, the daughter was also ashamed to use Shashi to replace her father. The reason is very simple, other students' parents can speak English, but their mother is an "illiterate" who even has difficulty expressing English.
For the dissatisfaction of her daughter and husband, Shashi can only choose to be patient.
Many people may say, is not English, we have learned English for so many years, we may not necessarily speak how slippery.
But in India, not speaking English is directly regarded as a symbol of uneducatedness.
Secondly, you have to know that because India was colonized by the British, English is their official language in addition to the several Hindi languages spoken in their own country. This explains why there are some bridges in the film, showing indians speaking English more than Hindi.
In other words, English and their native Hindi are almost a language of nature, do not speak one of the native english, do you mean to say that you are Indian?
Therefore, the daughter's dissatisfaction with her mother actually implies a certain humiliation. For the humiliation from her daughter, Shashi, who has little culture, can only suffer in silence.
In India, where men are inferior to women, without culture, you have nothing.
Self-esteem, as I said in the Indian films I introduced to you before, does not exist.
This unknown superficial harmony is soon altered with the arrival of a wedding. One day, Shashi was told that her cousin in the United States was about to get married and needed to help with the wedding celebration herself.
After discussion, the husband decided to send his wife over first, and he and the child followed.
According to the plan, Shashi, who first came to the United States, was still in love with her family at first, and asked her husband to take care of her two children by phone every day.
But soon, Shahi was influenced by the highly modern atmosphere of the United States, and she began to want to take her first step bravely - to meet different people in unfamiliar environments.
However, the process was not smooth, because of the language barrier, she could not order normally, and incidentally received countless white eyes from the black sister at the counter.
Shashi, who was forced to be confused by the clerk's unfriendly attitude, became the laughing stock of the others in the store that day.
To make matters worse, Shahi, struggling to maintain her dignity, created even more chaos in the shop.
Embarrassed, Shahi felt for the first time the frustration of not being able to communicate normally, and feeling ashamed, she left tears of embarrassment in a foreign country for the first time after escaping from the coffee shop.
Learn mathematics, physics and chemistry well and walk all over the world without fear? Are you afraid you're discriminating against liberal arts students?
Fortunately, at this time, the French brother who was in the store with her at that time chased out, not only delivered the coffee left by Shashi in the store, but also tried to calm down the other party.
Determined to improve her English, Shahi decided to use her spare time to enroll in an English crash course while helping her relatives set up the wedding.
In class, Shashi meets foreigners from all over the world, including, of course, the French guy who comforted her.
Although the crash course lasted only 4 weeks, Shahi's hard work and diligence soon allowed her to accumulate some common sense.
The hardest working person is often extraordinarily charming, and that's her. And she was fascinated by the French guy.
The two went from the initial good feelings, to the ambiguous walk together, to the view from the roof. If it weren't for Shashi's marriage, maybe the two would have actually come together.
But in the end, this relationship has not yet begun, because Shahi's lofty sense of morality is pulled back to reality.
The reality is that her family came to the United States shortly thereafter; the reality is that she will have to accept the ridicule of her family again; the reality is that she gave up her dream of learning English for the sake of the family's consummation, and a relationship that may be of better quality.
In the end, her cousin's wedding took place as scheduled, and Sassie's speech at the wedding was thought-provoking.
This speech also awakened the father and daughter duo who had long ignored their own efforts.
As a person who has come over, as a mature woman, Shashi's "lies" full of good intentions in the face of the newcomer contain her most sincere emotions and blessings, but at the same time, looking back at the experience of this character, you will find that what she said is seriously inconsistent with her experience.
Life can never be as good as in a movie, and the contrast that the director has placed here reflects the current reality of India, but also uses Shashi's mouth to make a disguised accusation against other family members in the story who ignore the feelings of their families.
And that's where I think it's more profound than Amir Khan's films. Although both are essentially comedic about a reunion story, there is a sharper, more contradictory part of Indian English that is rarely seen and most thought-provoking of Amir Khan's previous films introduced into the country.
From Shashi's above two monologues, you can interpret it as either a "middle-aged woman who feels hopeless about life and decides to continue to deceive the next generation with the illusion of numbness", or it can be interpreted as the version I just said - life is not easy, but only kindness can resolve the gap between family members and look forward together.
There is no right or wrong between these two versions, after all, everyone's experience and cognitive level is different, but I would like to say that the expression of "Indian English" through this passage of full reflection on life is the most humane Indian film I have seen in the past few Indian films.
For example, "Hot" and "WrestleMania!" "Daddy" and even "Mysterious Superstar", they have exposed the status of women's status in India to varying degrees, but at the same time, every character in it is too flat, resulting in a small number of opportunities for people like Shashi to appear.
▲ The mother's presence in "Mysterious Superstar" is not very high
In contrast, Shashi, in the film, she is portrayed as a flesh and blood person, and her reactions are in line with people's realistic cognition of life, which has a very strong reflective significance.
In the face of her daughter's capricious complaints, in the process of chatting privately with the French brother, Shashi will also express her dissatisfaction.
For the Feelings of the French Brother and her impending crossing of the line, she chose to take an evasive posture.
In the face of the other party's questioning, Shashi explained:
Even on occasions like weddings, when her husband again intends to rudely interrupt her speech, she will fight back.
There is a limit to human endurance, not to mention that Shashi is not stupid, she is also a human, a woman with normal perception.
And since as a woman, who does not want to be treated gently, and choose to become a yellow-faced woman in the tedious housework and the snub of her husband?
The journey to the United States is the key point at which Shashi's character begins to undergo transformation, and each attempt during this period symbolizes a goodbye to her past self.
As others have been instructed, "You should be more confident."
Watching Indian English is a fantastic experience, and you'll be amazed at how well the director switches between laughter and serious topics, and the precision of each focus is not lacking in depth.
It would be a shame to miss this movie because you were not familiar with Shri Daiyu.
In short, this movie once again refreshed my understanding of India's mainstream commercial films, compared to our silly domestic comedy, it is really not better than not knowing, a comparison of angry ah.
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