Bend It Like Beckham: MUSIC FROM MOTION PICTURE

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The two almost kiss, but Jess pulls away, saying her parents would object, and that although they had come far enough to let her go to America to play, she doesn't think they would be able to handle another cultural rebellion from her.

Now 46, he is known as businessman with his own training academy, as well as ownership of Inter Miami FC and part ownership of non-league club Salford City, where he is also a director. On the surface, Bend It Like Beckham is a film about a football-loving teenager from a British-Indian Sikh family in London. As Jules, Knightley was a best friend to Jess as well as a possible love rival, whose interfering mother Paula (Juliet Stevenson) also struggled to understand her daughter’s interest in football. In nearly every scene of the film, we see Jess bend rules from her family and community so she can live out her dreams. It could have been a movie about a (slightly creepy) love-triangle between a coach and his two star players.Juliet Stevenson and Frank Harper joined as Paula Paxton and Alan Paxton, mother and father of Jules. And although the scene where Jess is taking a free-kick and imagines her relatives in goal is hilarious, it's also a striking image that reminds us we've seen Jess create her own identity, mixing her culture, family and sport.

In a sleepy suburb of west London under Heathrow’s flight path, Jess (Parminder Nagra) can’t get enough of football. What family would want a daughter-in-law who can run around kicking football all day but can't make round chapatis? Having previously worked with Road Movies, a German production company on several other projects, Nayar approached them and they came on board, followed by British Screen and The Film Council. The coach, Joe, a young Irish former player whose own career was derailed by injuries, accepts her onto the team. When this unassuming comedy came out in 2002, women’s football wasn’t a professional sport in the UK or Australia.

The film received generally positive reviews from critics, with praise for the screenplay, light-hearted tone, and commentary on South Asian social norms and culture.

He had one of his biggest successes with The Tudors, in which he played a rather glamorous version of King Henry VIII from 2007 to 2010, scoring him another Golden Globe nod. Not really here, but you can in America - they've got a pro-league with new stadiums and everything," she says. Stevenson, now 65, has since appeared in Mona Lisa Smile, Being Julia, Diana and The Letters, the latter of which involved her curious casting as the late Mother Theresa. She lives with her long-term partner, anthropologist Hugh Brody, and has a daughter and a son, having lost her step-son, who died at the age of 37 in November 2020.Later that day, Jess has still not told her parents about the scholarship; she is afraid they might not allow her to go to the United States on her own. Beckham went on to play for Real Madrid, LA Galaxy, AC Milan and Paris Saint-Germain, stepping down as England captain in 2006. The film stars Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Anupam Kher, Juliet Stevenson, Shaznay Lewis, and Archie Panjabi. Bend It Like Beckham is a 2002 sports comedy-drama film directed by Gurinder Chadha from a screenplay by Chadha, Paul Mayeda Berges, and Guljit Bindra. Lewis and Melanie Blatt founded All Saints in 1993, before being joined by sisters Natalie and Nicole Appleton later on, and had a first taste of success with the Brit award-winning single Never Ever.

Jess’s love for her family and for the game must coexist, no matter how much they threaten to tear each other apart.But with Jesminder “Jess” Bhamra, the film’s inspiring central character, came hope for all women and girls dreaming of being the next big thing. Set to a much-celebrated Punjabi soundtrack, with early 2000s hits and Spice Girls tracks, the music transports you into the culture clash that plays out on screen. As much as we’re rooting for Jess, we come to understand her parents’ reluctance to embrace her desire to be a football player isn’t just based on outdated, conservative stereotypes, but a fear that she’ll be let down by a society that doesn’t respect her for who she is – a brown woman trying to play professional sport.