A film have enjoyed recently is ‘Bend It like Beckam’.
What made me want to see it was the title first of all.
I was also interested to see what it’s like for an Indian teenager growing up in England.
It was directed by Gurinder Chadha and it stars two young British actresses Parminder Nagra and Keira Knightley.
The film is set in present-day London.
The main character is an Indian girl called Jess.
She comes from a very traditional Indian family, who all want her to learn to cook and get married like her elder sister.
The problem is that Jess wants to play only football, which her parents won’t allow her to do because they say, it is unsuitable sport for a girl.
Encouraged by her friend Joules- played by Ceria Knightly- she starts playing for a local girls’ football beam, but tells her family that she got a part time job in a Shop.
Eventually her parents find out, of course, and try to stop her.
Things get really complicated when it turns out that both she and Joules are in love with Joe (the team’s young male coach)
So jess is forced to choose between her family, her friend and the man she loves.
However it all ends happily and jess is allowed to continue with her foot balling career.
Although, sometimes the film is a bit slow moving and the dialogue is quite difficult to understand at times, there are a number of things I liked about this film.
There is quite a lot of humour in the film and there are some amusing characters especially Joules mom, who is always worrying about her daughter.
The scenes showing Jess’s sisters’ wedding are very warm and colourful.
The sound track is good too with a mixture of rock and Indian music.
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