A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of watching Bend It Like Beckham a film by Gurinder Chadha starring Parminder Nagra. I decided to see this movie because I received an email from a highschool friend of mine who is into films which contained a forwarded message encouraging people to go to the movie opening night in the US to give is a huge reception to help the movie do well in the US. (Honestly, I wasn’t receptive to that idea since I would rather support merit rather than sheer ratings — but then again, that is why I’m writing this review).
So when I had nothing else to do one evening, I dragged a friend of mine with me and we went to watch the movie. It literally had me in splits to watch all the typical desi and more so punjabi, ABCD (in this case ABCBritt), parental and sexual orientation stereotypes. The movie was funny in terms of typifing stereotypes of all kinds, but at the same time raising a fair number of issues — probably more so than you would expect from a movie that has you in splits quite often. An overall crowd pleaser and a highly recommended movie to watch.
