Gurinder Chadha
Birthday: 1960-01-10
Place of Birth: Nairobi, Kenya
Biography: Gurinder Kaur Chadha (born January 10, 1960), is a Kenyan-born British film director. She was brought up in Southall, West London in a Punjabi Sikh family. Most of her films explore the lives of South Asians living in the United Kingdom. She is best known for the hit films Bhaji on the Beach (1993), Bend It Like Beckham (2002), Bride and Prejudice (2004) and Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (2008).
Movies
2 Tone: The Sound of Coventry
The story of how 2 Tone, a record label from Coventry went on to have a global impact. The brainchil...
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Two Tone Britain
Documentary tracing the history of the Two Tone record label which emerged in the late 1970s, the ba...
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Queen Victoria and the British Maharajah
From the real-life Downton Abbey to her Southall roots, acclaimed filmmaker Gurinder Chadha explores...
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The Stupids
An incredibly dull-witted family unknowingly stumble upon an illegal weapons deal while on the trail...
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I Hate Jane Austen
While it may be universally acknowledged that she’s one of the great English writers, Giles Coren br...
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India's Partition: The Forgotten Story
In this documentary, British film-maker Gurinder Chadha, director of Bend It Like Beckham and Vicero...
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Cinefile: Reel Women
Interviews with women directors working in Hollywood and Europe in the early 1990s, exploring the op...
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First Do No Pharm
We have had too much medicine for too many years. The time to act is now. How one doctor's fight aga...
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Bend It Like Beckham
Jess Bhamra, the daughter of a strict Indian couple in London, is not permitted to play organized so...
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