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...Indian wedding and a lifetime of cooking the perfect chapati, Jess dreams of playing soccer professionally, like her hero David Beckham. Wholeheartedly against Jess’ unorthodox ambition, her parents eventually reveal that their reservations...

...terrific Parminder K. Nagra) idolizes Brit soccer star David Beckham. She plays amateur soccer in London behind the back of her...Gurinder Chadha juggles all the angles with flair and fairness. Like Nagra and Knightley, the movie is a sweetheart. PETER TRAVERS...

An Indian girl from London dreams of playing soccer like her idol, David Beckham, but her orthodox family would prefer she follow a more traditional path that involves marriage and a lifetime of…

...announced their engagement.Chadha, who directed 2002's "Bend It Like Beckham," said she has told Rai, a former Miss World, of...contribution to the British film industry."Somehow it always feels good to be recognized, especially in Britain...

It was no surprise that director Gurinder Chadha, despite a traditional upbringing in a Punjabi household, did more than what was expected of an Indian woman. Her distinctly Anglo surroundings in…

Irish actor Jonathan Rhys Meyers first gained notoriety for his lead role in Todd Haynes’ “Velvet Goldmine” (1998), a surreal examination of 1970s glam rock in which he portrayed a sort of fictional…

This talented, strawberry-blond British actress came to art-house audience's attention with her tour de force performance as a woman coping with the death of her lover (Alan Rickman) who seemingly is…