Subhash K Jha (DNA; May 23, 2014)

Sridevi’s comeback film English Vinglish will release on May 27 all over Japan in Japanese. And we aren’t talking about the original film being subtitled in Japanese. English Vinglish will now be dubbed into Japanese. So we’ll get to hear the actress speaking Japanese on screen for the first time.

But the best is yet to come. Sridevi’s producer-husband Boney Kapoor has agreed to let the film’s producers Eros International use footage of Sridevi from his mammoth 1993 production Roop Ki Rani Choron Ka Raja dressed as a traditional Japanese woman in a kimono and with make-up that made her look strikingly Japanese. Confirming this Boney says, “Yes, there is a section in Roop Ki Rani Choron Ka Raja where Sri was dressed up as Japanese girl. I’ve offered to let the producers use those images of Sri to promote the film’s release in Japan.”

Sridevi is ecstatic about the impact that English Vinglish is having. It has been released in Germany, Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan and now in Japan.