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6 unusual facts about Bend it like Beckham


Narinder Dhami

Her most famous and biggest selling book was Bend It Like Beckham, a novelisation of the film.

Pyongyang International Film Festival

The ninth festival, held in 2004, moderated cultural restrictions further with the screening of a dubbed and censored version of the British comedy Bend It Like Beckham and U.S.-produced South African drama Cry, The Beloved Country.

Sarita Khajuria

She also played an uncredited extra in Gurinder Chadha's 2002 hit film Bend It Like Beckham.

Tariq Modood

He points out that Britain is far less racist than in the past, and that films and television shows such as Bend It Like Beckham and The Kumars at No 42 demonstrate that Britain is multicultural.

Trey Farley

Farley has acted in various films including Bend It Like Beckham where he played Taz, Containment where he played Jacob, The Run, Martyr and Slow Fade.

Yeading F.C.

The successful 2002 film Bend It Like Beckham was filmed at The Warren, and the training sessions and matches depicted in the film take place there.


Billie Awards

Nominations for the first annual Billie Awards included Bend It Like Beckham and Million Dollar Baby in the Entertainment category.

Goldy Notay

It's A Wonderful Afterlife was a British-Indian co-production where she worked with the director of Bend it like Beckham, Gurinder Chadha who cast a range of British and Indian actors, including Shabana Azmi, Sally Hawkins, Sendhil Ramamurthy and Zoë Wanamaker.

Woman's film

Bend It Like Beckham (2002) emphasizes the key generic theme of female friendship and casts the heroine in a conflict between the restrictions of her traditional Sikh upbringing and her aspirations to become a football player.


see also

Parminder

Parminder Nagra, English actress who starred in 2002 film Bend It Like Beckham