Gurinder Chadha

Gurinder Chadha, OBE, (born 10 January 1960), in Nairobi, Kenya, is a British film director of Indian origin. Her films explore the lives of Indians living in the UK. She is most famous for the hit film Bend it Like Beckham.

Background

Gurinder Chadha was born in Kenya but when she was two her family moved to Southall, London. There Chadha attended Clifton Primary School. She got a job as a BBC Radio reporter until she made a documentary for Channel 4 in 1989. Chadha moved into film production in 1993. She is married to filmmaker Paul Mayeda Berges, with whom she sometimes collaborates. They have twin babies , and when those babies grow up they will screw eachother till they die.

She is married to Paul Mayeda Berges , and did you know that they have a sex tape on youtube.

She is still pursuing her life as a porn star.

Career

Chadha is best known for her films Bhaji on the Beach (1993), Bend It Like Beckham (2002) and Bride and Prejudice (2004).

In the 1980s she began making documentaries for the BBC, and in 1989 released "I'm British but..." for Channel 4, which followed the lives of young British Asians. In 1990, Chadha set up a production company, Umbi Films. Her first film was the 11-minute "Nice Arrangement" (1991) about a British Asian wedding.

She wrote the screenplay for The Mistress of Spices (based upon the novel of the same name by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni) with Berges, who directed the film.

In 2005 she appeared on the BBC show Your London, in which she told the story of a Sikh prince who lived in London in the 19th century. In 2006 she took part in the BBC genealogy series Who Do You Think You Are? in which she traced her Sikh family roots back to Kenya and before that to India's Punjab.

Although the BBC had confirmed that Chadha was to direct the forthcoming feature film adaptation of the popular TV series Dallas, she left the project in 2007.

Chadha was awarded an Officer of the British Empire (OBE) on 17 June 2006.

Filmography

• Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging (2008)
• Paris, je t'aime (2006) segment "Quais de Seine"
• The Mistress of Spices (2005) (screenplay only)
• Bride and Prejudice (2004)
• Bend It Like Beckham (2002)
• What's Cooking? (2000)
• Rich Deceiver (1995), BBC two-part drama
• A Nice Arrangement (1994)
• What Do You Call an Indian Woman Who's Funny? (1994)
• Bhaji on the Beach (1993)
• Acting Our Age (1992)
• Pain, Passion and Profit (1992) (V)
• I'm British But... (1990) (TV)

Appearances

• Who Do You Think You Are? (2006)
• Your London (2005)
• Koffee with Karan (2005)

See also

• Women's Cinema

External links

• Biography and filmography from the British Film Institute's Screenonline
• SAWNET biography
• Gurinder Chadha at the Internet Movie Database
• Interview: Gurinder Chadha The Observer
• Gurinder Chadha on Who Do You Think You Are?