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Golden Globe Best Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical 2004 · Nominated
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Alexander Korda Award 2003 · Nominated
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Satellite Awards. 2004 Nominee Golden Satellite Award. Best Actress in a Supporting Role, Comedy or Musical. Shaheen Khan. 2004 Nominee Golden Satellite Award. Best Motion Picture, Comedy or Musical.
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. The film stars Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Anupam Kher, Juliet Stevenson, Shaznay Lewis and Archie Panjabi.
Bend It Like Beckham: Directed by Gurinder Chadha. With Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Anupam Kher. Two ambitious girls, despite their parents' wishes, have their hearts set on careers in professional football.
- Gurinder Chadha
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- IN AMERICA, IT WAS ALMOST KNOWN AS MOVE IT LIKE MIA. In 2002, studio executives at Fox Searchlight were concerned that Americans wouldn’t know who David Beckham was, and wouldn’t understand what it meant to “bend” a soccer ball.
- EVEN THOUGH IT'S NAMED FOR DAVID BECKHAM, THE FILM WAS ACTUALLY INSPIRED BY PLAYER IAN WRIGHT. Chadha said that her initial idea to write a film about “the evolving concept of Britishness” came about when she saw an image of Ian Wright, a black player, wearing the Union Jack flag at the Euro 96 championship.
- GURINDER CHADHA DIDN'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT SOCCER. Chadha relied on her co-writers to fill in the blanks of what she didn't know, writing “jargon jargon football jargon,” instead of actual content, into the Beckham script.
- BOTH PARMINDER NAGRA AND KEIRA KNIGHTLEY DID ALL OF THEIR OWN SOCCER PLAYING. “I put them into three months solid football training and they had a coach and every day they would in and train," Chadha told blackfilm.com. "
Film. Awards. Mar 28, 2002 3:53pm PT. Bend It Like Beckham. An Anglo-Indian girl gets to realize her dream after meeting a blonde English tomboy in "Bend It Like Beckham," an amusing...
Apr 5, 2018 · Made for about $6 million, director and co-writer Gurinder Chadha’s Bend It Like Beckham follows a British-Indian girl named Jess (Parminder Nagra) as she struggles to reconcile her love of...
Mar 12, 2003 · Jess Bhamra (Parminder Nagra), the daughter of a strict Indian couple (Anupam Kher, Shaheen Khan) in London, is not permitted to play organized soccer, even though she is 18.
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