Anyone who has heard Indians speak English should have some experience. Their unique accent is much more distinctive than Chinglish. Everyone eats grapes without spitting out the grape skins. If you have the experience of calling the customer service of a telephone company (because they are mostly Indian), you know what it means to want to hit a wall.
But having said that, just get used to it.
This film is not a self-deprecating Indian accent, but a description of a small self-fulfillment and playful resistance of a traditional Indian housewife.
The daughter looked down on her because her English was not good. Her husband underestimated her and praised her as "My wife was born to make Ladoo (Indian dim sum)." They didn't know that they hurt their mother and wife. The heroine Shashi wants equality and respect. As she said at her niece’s wedding, family members will never laugh at your weaknesses, belittle you, or make you feel insignificant, family members will always be your strongest backing, and family members must help each other. Everyone finds himself weaker. When you find that you cannot communicate with your family, you have to help yourself and change yourself, because no one can help yourself better than yourself. Others laughed at the English of the housewife Shashi, and she quietly worked hard to learn English. In fact, the focus is not on learning English. After all, the quality of her English as a housewife in India is not really important, but what matters is that she has proved that she can do it.
I don't want to have more spoilers here, because everyone will find their own part of the resonance in the film.
My favorite Shashi's final insight is "learn to love yourself". The education we receive is selfless and dedication. But when following any dogma and belief, don't lose yourself. When we don’t like ourselves, everything around us is wrong; when we like ourselves and love ourselves, what we do is right.
No one can be underestimated. The cooking skills of housewives are also to be compared with others.
Learn to love yourself, and likewise, give others a look of appreciation.
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