Hizkia Dwiatmaja
1400410023/Digital Communication
Subject: English for Communication
Lecturer: Yunias Monika
Language
Issues and its Power in Communication
Analysis
From “English Venglish” Film
[Film Summary]
English Vinglish is an Indian drama
film directed by Gauri Shinde and was released in 2012. The story is about
Sashi, a housewife who feels degraded from her well-educated husband and
daughter because of her inability to speak and understand english. One day,
Sashi’s older sister Manu, invites Sashi’s family to her daughter wedding in
New York. It is decided that Sashi will go alone first to New York to help Manu
organizes the wedding and soon her family will follow during the wedding day.
Traumatized by the accident in New York coffee shop due her inability to
communicate in english, Sashi decided to secretly enrolls in english class for
four weeks so the same accident will not happen again and the mocking from her
family would turns into respect.
