Bend it like Beckham

The film "Bend it like Beckham" was directed by Gurinder Chadha, released in 2002 and tells the story of the young Indian girl Jessminder. Her dream is to play in a footballteam, but the cultural rules are very strict.

Jessminder dreams about playing football in a professional team. She meets Jules, who plays in a football team for women and she invites Jess to play in the team. There she gets to know the coach Joe. But her family don't want that Jess plays football, because their Indian cultures are very strict to girls.

In the film is mostly playing Indian music and also songs like "She's a Lady" and "Do Your Thing". The music is a good choice for the film.

Parminder Nagra is playing the main character Jessminder Kaur Bhamra brilliant. Not anybody have the ability to act a character with so many ups and downs in the life like Jess.
And also Keira Knightley and Jonathan Rhys Meyers who are acting Jules Paxton and Joe merge into their role which is very entertaining.

Mr and Mrs Bahmras are acting by Anpupam Kher and Shaheen Khan. They play the strict but sometimes also appreciative parents of Jess very well and persuasive.
Jess' sister Pinky is well acting by Archie Panjabi and also Jules' parents Paula and Alan Paxton are very good and funny acting by Juliete Stevenson and Frank Harper.

The director wants to show with this film how strict other cultures can be. But when you really want to live your dream and believe in you, it will work. He done this very well.

The film is worth to recommendate. The actors are all very good and you can also learn to know new cultures. It's well done, interesting and also funny. Perfect for old and young.