Her identity is questioned just because she doesn’t know how to speak and communicate in English properly. Such rejection from her own family members turns Shashi into a taken-for-granted wife and an insecure mother in front of other smart, modern, and fluent English speaking parents. Those who speak fluent English are considered modern and those who don’t are treated as backdated. English is just not a colonial language, but sadly the definition of social status in societies like this. Her inability to speak in English makes her teenage daughter embarrassed. On the other hand, Shashi continues to fulfill everyone’s wish- as a mother, wife, or daughter-in-law. Moreover, he finds cracking silly jokes on Shashi in public more enjoyable. He has no interest in exploring the inner qualities of Shashi, neither in appreciating her for the woman she is. He comes home late and hardly makes time to have a little chat with his wife. Whenever she tries to share her business-related issues with her husband, her excitement is silenced by his constant ignorance. He fails to value the work she was doing. She is insulted in the name of sarcastic remarks by him, silently and sometimes unintentionally. But when we dig into the relationship between Shashi and her husband, we see that Shashi’s self-worth is never acknowledged.
At first glance, there’s nothing wrong with him. In her husband’s words, “ My wife, she was born to make laddoos! ” Her husband is a loving husband and a loving father to her children. She has mastered the art of making delicious laddoos so well. Shashi runs a small business of homemade laddoos. She has a happy family that includes her husband, mother-in-law, and her two children. The main protagonist of the film Shashi Godbole is a typical housewife who belongs to a middle-class Indian family. The lead role of this transformational journey was played by popular Indian actress Sridevi, an epitome of grace and beauty of Hindi cinema who did complete justice to her role. No matter how complex things become, we should not laugh at the weaknesses of our loved ones. This movie teaches us that respect and cooperation should begin at home.
English Vinglish (2012) is one such movies that depicts the life of an ordinary housewife and her outstanding journey to discover her self-worth in a city far away from her comfort zone. In recent times, Bollywood, one of the biggest film industries in India has produced several women-centric movies portraying the everyday struggle of women in a contemporary patriarchal Indian society.
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