It was a much sadder story, probably because back then it seemed like there were even fewer avenues for someone like Jess to succeed. “Gurinder gave me advice and I sent the completed script to her, but I don’t think it was right for what she wanted to do at the time. I knew Gurinder and that she was a filmmaker, so one day I told her it would be great to see an Indian woman in a film doing something different, like being obsessed with football. I wanted to see something different, that showed we weren’t only thinking about weddings. “When I was growing up, it felt to me as though a lot of representations of South Asian women in films and TV often centred on issues around arranged marriages. “I started the very first version of the script in the early 90s”, Guljit recalls. Guljit Bindra co-wrote the film with Gurinder Chadha and Paul Mayeda-Burges, and The Glasgow Guardian spoke to her about her perspective on crafting the film and its effect on women’s sport. Through the endeavours of its protagonist, Jessminder, to intertwine her love for playing football with her South Asian culture, the film has sustained such relevance and uniqueness that its anniversary has dominated the media, with the BBC even producing a documentary about its impact. It has since become the only film to be officially distributed in every country in the world, inspiring sports players and sports journalists alike. Culture Editor Jeevan Farthing interviews Bend It Like Beckham’s co-writer Guljit Bindra about its effect on women’s sport.īend It Like Beckham is now 20 years old.
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