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English Vinglish

Name: English Vinglish
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Released: 2012-09-21
Duration: 134 min
Cast: Sridevi, Mehdi Nebbou, Sujata Kumar, Priya Anand, Adil Hussain

Bollywood20122h 14mHindiTop 91% of Bollywood budgets

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97th of 316 in Bollywood

Reported gross: 53
Return on budget: 95
Audience rating: 89
Momentum: 26

Out-grossed 53% of Bollywood releases with reported figures ($19M).
Returned 10.2× its budget, against an industry median of 2.5×.
Momentum in the 26th percentile.
Audience rating 7.2 from 310 votes, the 89th percentile.

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Cost: $2M
Took: $19M

Against a Bollywood median of 2.5×, so this one returned 4.1 times what a typical release there does.

The money says blockbuster. What do you say?

The picture

In the United States for the first time, an Indian housewife with a limited command of English turns Manhattan into her personal language school.

Released: 21 September 2012
Runtime: 2h 14m
Language: Hindi
Industry: Bollywood

Top billedAll 22 credits

SrideviShashi Godbole
Mehdi NebbouLaurent
Sujata KumarManu Desai
Priya AnandRadha Desai
Adil HussainSatish Godbole
Navika KotiaSapna Godbole

Made by

Director: Gauri Shinde
Writer: Gauri Shinde
Director of Photography: Laxman Utekar
Producer: R Damani, R. Balki, Sunil Lulla, Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

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ComedyDramaFamily

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