"Bend It Like Beckham," a unforgettable comedy.

"Bend It Like Beckham," is Gurinder Chadha's second film and actress Parminder Nagra's first film. The film is set in a town called Southall, in south-east of England. Its main focus is on Jasminer, a young Indian girl who has a passion for football but due to the demands of her culture and her parents, playing football proves to be difficult. However, this does not stop her. Instead, she secretly joins a girls football team and tells her parents that she has a summer job. As the film continues, we watch Jasminder go to any lengths to play football including lieing to her family, travelling to Germany and even missing a part of her sisters' wedding, all of which is done with a humorous tone. At the same time, Gurinder Chadha manages to carefully intertwine key concepts such as racism, homosexuality, gender and marriage and produces a unforgettable comedy. It has become a film that I can watch over and over again and still laugh every time.

I have chosen this film as a possible candidate for our final project because it's a film that has a lot to offer. Although its a "feel good," film, it has become a landmark amongst the British Indian culture. It can be analyzed with almost all of Corrigans' methods, particularly national, ideological, historical and genre. For those of you who want to find out more, I have provided a link from the BBC which provides a more detailed review about the film.