Parents influence their children's perspective on others and the world by controlling and making decisions for them. In the movie “Bend Like Beckham by Gurinder Chadha, Mr. Bhamra states “When i was a teenager in Nairobi, I was the best fast bowler in our school. Our team even won the East African Cup. But to play on any of the teams, and the bloody goras in their clubhouses made fun of my turban and sent me off packing!” This movie shows that her parents want her to be a proper woman to their…
The film, Bend it Like Beckham, follows two eighteen year old girls that dream of becoming professional soccer players. The movie not only focuses on soccer but also on how much her family influenced the decisions she took. Not only this but also how the traditions of her culture took over her love and passion for soccer. This is a full-shot and eye-level shot of Jess’ relatives, who match dissolve the soccer players who were originally there. The fact that they are in front of the penalty…
In the movie Bend it like Beckham the traditional Indian family is portrayed through a young woman by the name of Jesminder aka 'Jess '. Jess is trying to please her family and her culture while pursuing a soccer career. Within the Indian culture there are expectations for tradition/religion, gender and growing up/friendship. Jess’s character breaks all these norms. Jess essentially plays two roles. For her family she has to be “the perfect” Indian daughter and for her social life she breaks…
in values. She explored people's opinions on gender roles in 1988, 1994, and 2002 and predicts that the rejection of traditional gender roles will continue in the coming years. This rejection of traditional gender roles is a major theme in Bend It like Beckham. The film presents two seemingly very different mothers who both attempt to pressure their daughters into upholding their respective traditional gender roles. The movie shows Teets’ parents stating that “children are a map of their…
Bend it Like Beckham is a film that focuses on the entangling life of Jess Bambara. Jess is a young indian girl that has a passion toward playing soccer while having to deal with her family’s expectations of being the perfect indian daughter. This creates clashing in Jess’s life causing it to be difficult to balance her family’s beliefs along with her own ambition. In Bend it Like Beckham, Gurinder Chadha uses Jess’s conflict between her desire to play soccer and her family’s cultural…
Bending the Culture: Hybridization of Punjabi Ethos in Gurinder Chadha’s Bend it Like Beckham “Sometimes we feel we straddle two cultures; at other times, that we fall between two stools.” - Salman Rushdie ‘Diaspora is the term used to describe any population which is considered deterritorialized, dislocated and disintegrated fostering feels of ‘unbelongingness’ and ‘dispossession’. The…
Bend it Like Beckham explores many different gender and cultural roles based around sport. However, like a lot of movies out there, it questions these generalised and stereotyped roles in an obvious underlying manner. It’s pretty clear to see that this movie is an exaggerated version of what the general society is today but it is different in the way that it questions some of these stereotypes. In society, girls are supposed to look pretty and start a good family but in the movie Jess and Jules…
Million Dollar Arm is based on a true story of how two young teenagers, Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel became baseball pitchers who were discovered by sports agent name J.B. Bernstein after winning a reality show competition. It all started when J.B and his business partner, Ash lose a huge client. J.B then struggles and in desperate to find new clients. He came up with an idea of travelling to India of hosting a contest called “Million Dollar Arm” hoping to find the next great baseball pitcher. J…
The director of Bend it like Beckham is Gurinder Chadha in 2002 and was set up in Hounslow in London. It focuses on Jessminder and Jules’ dreams of playing football professionally while facing and overcoming cultural difference and gender pressures from their families and the people around them. The film talks about themes such as Cultural differences, gender stereotypes, and the overcoming of such barriers are perpetual. Jess is raised in a traditional Indian family, however, she grows up in…
people want to do things their way and not the way their ancestors have been doing. Years ago people were very narrow-minded and did things traditionally or the way that the society accepted. This was exactly the case in the film Bend it Like Beckham. Bend it Like Beckham is a film about an Indian family that lives in the United Kingdom. Born into a traditional Indian family, yet raised in UK, the main character Jesminder(Jess), deals with cultural differences that she has a hard time accepting.…