BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM
Genre
Dark Comedy, Drama and Romance
Running time
112 minutes
Year
2002
Language
English, Punjabi, Hindi and German
Country
United Kingdom, Germany and United States of America (USA)
Director
Gurinder Chadha
Bio
Producer
Gurinder Chadha, Deepak Nayar
Cast
Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Anupam Kher
Scriptwriter
Gurinder Chadha, Guljit Bindra
BILB is the story of Jess Bhambra who dreams for playing football liek her hero David Beckham while her mother dreams of her cooking perfect Indian dinner.
Jess is a great athlete but for her traditional mother she is a tomboy and far too masculine. Now she is 18 she has to give it all up and become a ‘good Indian girl’ that someone will want to marry.
For Jess she wants both. Why can’t she? So over a summer we follow her journey to Bend the rules, not break them, to traverse the complex world second generation British Indian girls to get what they want while keeping their parents happy too!
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