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Chadha's perfect Pitch – Football and Marriage
Bend It Like Beckham tells the story of a British Sikh girl's footballing ambition
Bend It Like Beckham tells the story of a British Sikh girl who wants to be a football star – it is, says director Gurinder Chadha, really about two national obsessions, the British obsession with football and Indian obsession with marriage. Plus: the Canadian comedy Men with Brooms about the sport of curling; and an appreciation of legendary writer-director Billy Wilder, who has died aged 95.
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Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service Archive
This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project