MUMBAI: Sridevi‘s big screen comeback English Vinglish will have its world premiere at the 37th Toronto international Film Festival (TIFF), along with Mira Nair‘s Reluctant Fundamentalist and Deepa Mehta‘s Midnight‘s Children.

Produced by R Balki and also starring French actor Mehdi Nebbou, Adil Hussain and Priya Anand, the film has been directed by debutante Gauri Shinde. The film marks Sridevi‘s return to the screen after 15 years.

It is a funny and touching story about an Indian woman who struggles to learn English to help provide for her family. The film releases on 21 September.

Filmmaker Deepa Mehta is returning to the festival with her ambitious big screen adaptation of Salman Rushdie‘s Booker-prize-winning novel Midnight‘s Children.

Meera Nair‘s Reluctant Fundamentalist will also have its gala screening at TIFF. Based on Pakistani author Mohsin Hamid‘s novel of the same name, ‘Reluctant Fundamentalist‘ stars Kate Hudson, Kiefer Sutherland, Liev Schreiber, Nelsan Ellis, Riz Ahmed.

TIIF will have 10 films from Mumbai as part of its "City-to-City" program. The ‘Maximum City‘ is in focus this year.

The festival runs from 6 to 16 September.