After fighting tooth and nail in order for Sridevi's comeback vehicle English Vinglish doesn't budge from its release date September 21, the film's producers have finally bowed out of the woman-centric race. Leaving the coast clear for Kareena's heroine on Sept 21, English Vinglish has now moved to October 5.
The decision was taken at a gathering earlier this week attended by the producers, director Gauri Shinde and Boney Kapoor.
Various reasons are being recommend for Sri's delayed arrival within the theatres. None of them, claim the producers Eros Entertainment and Balki, has anything to do with another heroine-oriented jostling for attention at the same Friday.
Balki says the film isn't ready. "There are three separate versions of the film in Tamil, Telugu and Hindi to be completed. Though we could've rushed into release on September 21, we saw no point in it. We're yet to shoot with Ajith who plays Mr. Bachchan's role in Tamil and Telugu. I'M doing that this week. Then we return to post-production work."
A source from Eros has a fully different reason behind the postponement. "Eros saw too many releases jostling for space in September. Plus we have now our own Chakravyuh directed by Prakash Jha coming in September (at the 12th). Eros with Balki's consent took a call to postpone in place of have two releases from Eros throughout the same month."
However, the third and best reason behind the postponed release of English Vinglish comes from a source very with reference to Heroine. "It wasn't really about two corporate houses Eros and UTV vying to get their product in to the similar Friday September 21. It was about two screen queens Sridevi and Kareena Kapoor coming with their films at the same day. Kareena and Sridevi met and talked it out. Both felt Heroine couldn't afford any longer delay. So both the actresses decided to let Kareena come first into theatres."
The last word at the postponement of English Vinglish comes from the irrepressible Balki.
"The Hero always gives the Heroine the best of way. And Sridevi is the hero of English Vinglish. She's decided to let Heroine get there first."
