Saturday, May 6, 2017

Gurinder Chadha

Alex Caminer
Professor Doris Cacoilo
Media 384
6 May 2017

                                                    

Gurinder Chadha was born in Kenya and grew up in Southall, London, England. She began her career as a news reporter with BBC Radio, directed several documentary awards for the BBC, and began an alliance with the British Film Institute (BFI) and Channel Four. In 1990, Chadha set up her own production company: Umbi Films. I have to add that she is a writer, producer, and film director.
I like when I have to talk about authors, artist or film director/screenwriter, regardless of whether they are women or men doing the work. For me, no matter what the sex that is doing or creating it, what matters is the idea, the message and the work they want to demonstrate. As a creator of content and videos, what matters is to produce a good material, that's why I always decided to study and be a film producer. In the year 2002 when I was 10 years old, I grew up loving soccer and cinema. In that year appeared the film "I want to be like Beckham" "Bend it like Beckham". 


This film caught my attention because I first talked about football and a very famous English player like Beckham. Also, I was struck, because the main author of this film was a woman. Long ago it was strange to see a woman playing soccer because she was not considered female. This film created much controversy but also broke some taboos in the history of the cinema. Since the main actress was not only female, her origin was from India. Usually, girls who belong to Muslim custom or tradition, are able to follow a law or rule that prohibits them from doing certain things.
That is why, this film directed by Gurinder Chadha and was made to go against that stereotype, break taboos and prove that a woman was not stopped being female for practicing a sport of men at that time.

In the film, Gurinder shows the daily life of a woman of India. Jesminder lived in another country with different customs. Jesminder was an 18-year-old girl living with her Hindu family in London. Her parents want her to be the perfect Indian wife, but she just wants to play football. She was fascinated by this game and was attracted to a famous football star like Beckham. One day in the park, Jules a girl of her age looks at her and invites her to join the local women's team. Jesminder is born overnight a series of opportunities and problems that will shake your world. He has before his eyes the opportunity to take his team to the finals and enjoy what he really likes and gives him good but will conflict with his family and his community so he will use various strategies to make his wishes come true.


                                                            Worked Cited

 Gurinder Chadha's Biography - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0149446/?ref_=ttfc_fc_dr1

Sypnosis taken from the movie trailer - Bend it like Beckham -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsmbObwStSQ

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