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a racist movie
a **black b........ * who talks hate against muslims gets mad when some one calls her a paki
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talk of hypocrisy..:o :(
Wow - what a funny comment 
Anyways - It is a good movie and I found it very funny 
The only decent characters were the desi morons and the English girl's mum.
The rest was run-of-the-mill-seen-it-all-before ho hum
Crappy movie. As they say in Punjabi "fillum da na koi sirr tay na pair".
It will be shown at some select theatres here, and operative word is select. Mostly desis will go see it, if at all, and it will then just fade away into oblivion. Not many here in US know who Beckham is or give any rats arse. The movie is available at almost all Indin movie stores on DVD already.
You know, if I had my time again I'd make movies. Just imagine how grateful the Asian community would be to watch something that hadn't been put together by some Indian boiler with a chip on her shoulder?
Xtreme I can just imagin wat ur movies wud ave been about.
welll........well........well
Y u people r so much aginst this movie. Is is a gr8 movie n is 4 those ho r cool....I m ean its a very cool movie abt an Indian girl trying 2 play soccer when her family is against her playing soccer.
They want her 2 make gol gol chapatis and good sabji.
Is a good movie n 1 shud go 4 it.
Here are some of the reviews from American newspapers
British ‘Beckham’ scores, with fine assist from its cast
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Claudia Puig USA TODAY
Culture and sports never have clashed as winningly as in Bend It Like Beckham ( * * * out of four).
A coming-of-age tale set against the backdrop of the Indian community in London and amid the world of women’s’ amateur soccer, Beckham is a rare amalgam of funny, sweet, action-packed and inspiring. And even more impressively, it never veers into treacly turf. Most movies aspiring to such a full slate might feel a bit contrived or at least schematic, but Beckham is as smooth as the moves of David Beckham, the British soccer star after which it is named.
Kudos go to writer/director Gurinder Chadha and the startlingly accomplished performances of a young and largely unknown cast, led by luminous newcomer Parminder Nagra.
The camera loves Nagra, and the audience can’t help but root for her character, Jess, a sensible teen, loving daughter and passionate athlete. Jess’s traditional Sikh Punjabi family would like nothing more than to host Jess’ big, fat Indian wedding. Jess’ older sister, Pinky (Archie Panjabi), is closer to her parents’ ideal. She is engaged to a young Indian man and willingly accepts a more traditional role.
Jess meets up with Jules (16-year-old Keira Knightley (news)), who watches her play soccer (football, of course, to Brits) in the park with a group of Indian boys and encourages her to try out for a team. Jess tries to broach it with her family, but they dismiss it out of hand. She ends up sneaking out for practice and games (while nosy family friends assume she’s sneaking out with a boy).
Meanwhile, she strikes up a close friendship with Jules and a budding romance with her handsome soccer coach, Joe (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers (news)). There are several small crises on her path to independence, including her team’s most important match (in which an American scout is in attendance) scheduled for the same date as her sister’s wedding.
The juxtaposition between the fast-paced plays on the soccer field and the color-drenched, music-infused wedding party is a highlight of this captivating film. The wedding scenes recall the joyous festivities and sensuality of Monsoon Wedding. And the story of an appealing teen girl falling in love for the first time and struggling between her immigrant family’s directives and the need to make her own way is reminiscent of last year’s charming Real Women Have Curves. But there’s nothing derivative about it. Unlike the mega-hit My Big Fat Greek Wedding, this film doesn’t reduce an ethnic community to stereotypes. And the conclusion, though upbeat, is not predictable. Be sure to stay for the rousing closing credits. (Opens today in select cities; PG-13 for language and sexual content)
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FEELING HOT HOT HOT!!!!!!!!
It was a great movie. Very funny. Go and watch it! :)
http://www.ew.com/ew/article/review/movie/0,6115,431940~1~0~benditlikebeckham,00.html
Review: ‘Bend It’ better than ‘Big Fat’
By Owen Gleiberman
Entertainment Weekly
Friday, March 14, 2003 Posted: 3:42 PM EST (2042 GMT)
“Bend It” puts a new definition of femininity on screen, according to EW reviewer Owen Gleiberman.
(Entertainment Weekly) – ‘‘Bend It Like Beckham’’ is the most exhilarating movie so far this year.
It’s made up of many familiar elements – think ‘‘Monsoon Wedding’’ meets ‘‘My Beautiful Laundrette’’ meets ‘‘Personal Best’’ – yet before long, you catch on to how buoyant and funny and original it is. Directed by Gurinder Chadha, it’s a culturally cross-wired sports comedy that’s infused with what might be called the greater global vibe of Title IX – that is, the spirit of sports equality as experienced by the first generation of women who grew up taking that equality for granted.
Made with a craftsmanship and pizzazz that restores your appreciation for honest commercial moviemaking, ‘‘Bend It Like Beckham’’ puts a new definition of femininity on screen, casual and cool and in your face. Jess (Parminder Nagra), the Indian-Anglo teenage heroine, has grown up in London, where she’s obsessed with soccer and good enough at it to kick circles around the local boys. Her fantasy is to go pro, following in the cleat-steps of her idol, British superstar David Beckham. Yet Jess’ parents, who are adamant about holding on to their traditional Sikh ways, won’t allow her to play.
‘My Big Fat’ comparison
If I had a dime for every time someone asked me how I could have hated ‘‘My Big Fat Greek Wedding,’’ I think I’d gather up the money, rent out a theater, and invite all of them to see ‘‘Bend It Like Beckham,’’ in which Jess’ hilariously blinkered, scolding, and overprotective parents evince a similar ‘‘ethnic’’ paranoia without ever sacrificing their humanity to sitcom tics. As her mother (Shaheen Khan) skulks through the house, cooking up Punjabi cuisine as if it were some stern sacramental rite, her pilot father (Anupam Kher), whom Jess is much closer to, sits around in his uniform and red turban, the outfit an emblem of his torn cultural allegiance. Meanwhile, Jess’ older sister (Archie Panjabi), with her nattering refrain of ‘‘Innit?,’’ may sound like an East Ender, but she’s about to have a traditional Indian wedding.
Jess, left, is played by newcomer Parminder Nagra.
Jess, a rebel who feels conflicted tugs of loyalty toward everything her family represents, surreptitiously joins a girls’ league team and strikes up a flirtation with the dreamboat Irish coach (Jonathan Rhys Meyers). But she’s forced to keep all of this a big secret. She has also been given a teammate buddy (Keira Knightly) who’s her rival for the coach’s affections. In a great gag, the friend’s mother, played with sublime terror by Juliet Stevenson, starts to think they’re lesbians.
Pretty and petite in a homespun way, Nagra’s Jess is also, at first, a bit passive and morose. Yet that’s all by design: She’s a girl who lets out her aggression only on the field, and the movie offers the delicious 21st-century paradox of a wallflower who is fully in touch with her inner soccer bruiser yet still in search of her inner woman. The final half hour, which crosscuts between the sister’s wedding and Jess’ big soccer match (attended by American scouts), manages to be even more impassioned than “Monsoon Wedding” and, at the same time, a pure Hollywood rouser.
Where can Gurinder Chadha, as a filmmaker, go from here? From the looks of it, anywhere in the world she wants.
Grade: A
http://movies.yahoo.com/news/ap/20030411/105010842000.html
‘Beckham’ Film Gets Wider U.S. Release
Friday April 11 5:47 PM ET
Who is this Beckham, and what exactly is he bending?
That’s what American moviegoers may wonder as the burgeoning sleeper hit “Bend It Like Beckham,” a British comedy about soccer-playing girls, opens wider in U.S. theaters this weekend.
The “Beckham” of the title is David Beckham, captain of England’s national soccer team and star of the Manchester United squad the equivalent of Michael Jordan or Tiger Woods in America. He’s also known as Mr. Posh Spice, husband of Spice Girls singer Victoria Adams.
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“Bend It” refers to his signature curling free kicks, which rack up goals from far afield by curving around would-be defenders.
“It’s something that my character, Jess, tries to emulate, and it’s a metaphor for bending the rules,” said Parminder Nagra, who stars as the rebellious daughter of a traditionalist Indian Sikh family in England.
The parents object to her character’s tomboyish behavior and want her to focus, like her older sister, on finding a good Indian husband.
“What it’s about is sort of ‘what your dream is,’” added Nagra, 27. “Not that one is better than the other, but whatever you conceive it to be, you should follow.”
After four weeks in limited release, the independent British film has earned only $2.6 million but scored a remarkable $10,000 average last weekend at 117 locations. It expands into 100 more theaters this weekend, and analysts expect another GOOOOOAAAAL!
“The $2.6 million doesn’t sound like a lot of money to a lot of people … but it tells you there’s a groundswell behind this movie,” said Paul Dergarabedian, president of box-office tracker Exhibitor Relations Co. “They’re doing exactly what they need to be doing. They have a great film on their hands, the buzz has been building and they’re rolling the film out into more and more theaters.”
The $241 million success of last year’s “My Big Fat Greek Wedding,” a similar low-budget comedy with ethnic and family themes, may have made the general moviegoing public more open-minded about such populist art-house films, he added.
“Beckham” has been hyped heavily by U.S. distributor Fox Searchlight at soccer coaching conventions and to local leagues. It also received endorsements from pro soccer stars Mia Hamm and Brandi Chastain.
The American Youth Soccer Organization has about 450,000 players, and about 42 percent are girls although the film’s PG-13 rating leaves out some younger fans.
One of the movie’s biggest marketing challenges has been explaining the title, said Nancy Utley, Fox Searchlight’s marketing president. One TV commercial compares him to skateboarder Tony Hawk and tennis star Serena Williams with the phrases “Hang It Like Hawk” and “Smash It Like Serena.”
Initially, Fox Searchlight wanted to change the title, but executives decided it could help generate curiosity. “We came up with a lot of bad generic titles and just decided to go for the quirkiness,” Utley said. “We’re the company that (distributed) ‘The Full Monty’ and no one knew what that was.”
The film directed and co-written by Gurinder Chadha (whose first film was “Bhaji on the Beach”) became the first film by a nonwhite Briton to reach No. 1 at the United Kingdom box office after its April 2002 release. It eventually became the top-grossing homegrown film with earnings equivalent to about $17 million. It has collected a worldwide total of about $50 million, according to Fox Searchlight.
“Beckham” co-stars Keira Knightley as Jules, who encourages Jess to join her team, but is facing the same kind of opposition from her parents about her passion for the male-dominated sport.
There’s also a love triangle involving the two girls and their handsome young coach (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers) that makes them question whether love or friendship is more important.
The story also tackles homophobia (Jules’ mother mistakenly fears that the two girls are lovers and one of Jess’ friends is secretly gay), sexism (the girls are mocked by bullying male soccer players) and racism (Jess’ father was once banned from playing soccer with whites and turned his bitterness against the sport.)
“There’s a lot of politics in it and the brilliant thing about Gurinder is it’s not like we’re preaching. Nobody preaches. It’s all done through comedy and it simply raises the issues,” Knightley said. “It’s simply about following your dreams, following your instincts and making yourself happy without hurting anybody else.”
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