Bend It Like Beckham: MUSIC FROM MOTION PICTURE

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But in the case of Bend It Like Beckham, it, if anything, actually undersells the film’s significance. The film was released on DVD and VHS on 18 November 2002 by Warner Home Video, and re-released on DVD and VHS on 30 September 2003 in the United States by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment.

On the day of Jess and Jules's flight to America, the two are about to board the plane when Joe arrives and confesses his love for Jess. Kher was nominated for a Bafta for his performance in the 2018 BBC TV sitcom The Boy With The Topknot. Development for the film began after Chadha, Bindra, and Berges completed the screenplay by early 2001.Nagra and Knightley were hired soon after, with casting rounded out with the additions of Meyers, Kher, Stevenson, Lewis, and Panjabi by that May. She had a huge impact on audiences as she shared the same lived experiences - both negative and positive - as many girls and women who played (and play) sport in the UK. Jess' hybrid identity helps remind us sport is a universal language with the power to aid integration.

The fact that the hero in "Bend It Like Beckham" is a cute Indian girl instead of a sixty-year-old meat head means that this is not your typical sports movie. Describing any single piece of art, especially a sport-themed, romantic comedy, as something that could heal the world after an event as globally traumatic as 9/11 risks coming across as overly hubristic, to say the least. For the role of Jess's mother, Mrs Bhamra, Chadha turned to Shaheen Khan, whom she had previously cast in Bhaji on the Beach. Production collaborated with The Football Association, while the film's title refers to David Beckham's curling free kick technique, also known as bending.Alongside All Saints tours, she has undertaken more songwriting with the likes of Westlife, Stooshe’s earworm Black Heart and Idris Elba for his Netflix series Turn It Up Charlie. Panjabi can currently be seen in season three of Snowpiercer and as investigator Kendra Malley on missing plane thriller Suspense. There is also a surprising amount of humour which is genuinely amusing, particularly from Knightley's mother (Juliet Stevenson) who worries excessively that her daughter is a closet lesbian.