Bend It Like Beckham, 12 April 2002
(UK)
Researched by Tammy
Summary of the plot
Filmed in Broadway Street, Southall,
Middlesex, England, UK
The film is about a typical east Asian family that
has moved to England and follow a traditional
Asian family life. Their daughter has a keen
interest in playing football and wants to take it
further by wanting to become a proffesional
football star, but because of her families
traditional way of life, her parents don’t agree
and want her to grow up and carry on being
part of a traditional and cultural way of life, but
football means more to her, so the film is her
journey on how she succeeds this.
Production
The director was:
Gurinder Chadha
The writers are :
•
Gurinder Chadha
•
Gulhit Bindra
•
Paul Mayeda Berges
Produced by
Producers
Gurinder Chadha also
made
•Gurinder Chadha,
•Bride and prejudice
Executive producers
•Angus, thongs and full
frontal snogging
•Haneet Vaswani,
•Deepak Nayar
•Zygi Kamasa
Simon Franks
The main members of cast was:
• Russel Fischer
•Parminder Nagra
Associate producer
•Keira Knightley
•Paul Mayeda Berges
•Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Line producer
•Paul Ritchie
Distribution
•20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
•Helkon SK
(2004) (Brazil) (DVD)
(2002-2003) (UK)
(theatrical)
•20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
(2004) (Brazil) (VHS)
•Highlight Film
•20th Century Fox de Argentina
(Germany)
(Argentina)
•Lucky Red
•A-Film Distribution
•Metropolitan Filmexport
(2002) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
•Redbus Film Distribution
•A-Film Home Entertainment (200?)
(Netherlands) (video)
•Albatros Film
(2003) (Japan) (all media)
(2003-) (UK) (all media)
•Twentieth Century-Fox Film
Corporation
•Fox Searchlight Pictures
(USA)
(North America) (South America)
•United King Films
•Gativideo
(Israel)
(2004) (Argentina) (DVD)
•iDream Productions
•Gativideo
(2004) (Argentina) (VHS)
(2002) (India) (all media)
Audience
I think the film was
aimed at young
teenagers because the
film was Rated PG-13 for
language and sexual
content,
The genre of the film is
comedy/drama/romance
and sport
The film was shown in a
trailer and posters
Awards
Bend it Like Beckham
Won runner up for 3 awards:
•BOP's Calvin Awards, Best Picture
•Golden Globes, Best Picture - Musical or Comedy
•Golden Satellites, Best Picture - Musical or Comedy
Parminder K. Nagra won
•Runner-up: BOP's Calvin Awards, Best Actress
Shaheen Khan won
•Runner-Up: Golden Satellites, Best Supporting Actress - Musical or Comedy
Paul Mayeda Berges, Gurinder Chadha, Guljit Bindra won
•Runner-Up: Writers' Guild, Best Original Screenplay
Film got released in
•English
•Hindi
•German
•Punjabi
Earned 2 million in box office