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BLOODY BRILLIANT!
I absolutely LOVED this movie!!! At first I though it would be kinda cheesy, and I was planning to go and see Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, but opted to go and see BILB with my mom instead. And, since then I have been hooked! I even went and saw it 2 more times with my friends! I wish I had seen it sooner, b/c I saw it the last week it was playing at my closest theatre. :(
The story starts out with a girl named Jess Bhamra (played by charming actress Parminder Nagra), of Indian descent, living in England with her[nasty], fashion-obsessed sister, Pinky (Archie Punjabi), and her strict, Sikh parents (Bollywood actor,Anupum Kher, and Shaheen Khan) who would love to see their daughter cooking delicious "aloo gobi" and "chapaties", instead of kicking [rear]on the football (soccer) field and following in the footsteps of her idol, English soccer star, David Beckham.
After becoming best friends with Jules (Keira Knightley), who is also struggling to follow her dream of becoming a professional soccer player, Jess secretly joins the Hounslow Harriers, soccer team and impresses the HOT Irish captain, Joe (played by GORGEOUS actor, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers). Jess and Jules become best friends, for Jules also has a mother who would rather see her daughter go shopping and chase boys, than play "football". In the midst of achieving her dream, Jess learns to overcome the obstacles of her Indian life at home with her paranoid parents and her sister's upcoming wedding. Along with that, a love triangle evolves between Jess, Jules and Joe, which can only complicate things even more.
This movie is filled with action, drama, comedy, romance and everything every great film must have. And the bonus is, ladies, that Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, who plays the handsome Joe, is HOT! :)

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Football and My Sister's Big Fat Indian Wedding
BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM refers to the ball-control skill of English football - uh, "soccer" to you Yanks - superstar David Beckham, who plays for mighty Manchester United. Beckham has no role in this film except as the hero of Jesminder "Jess" Bhamra (Parminder Nagra), the English-born teenaged daughter of middle-class Indian immigrants living in the London suburb of Hounslow under the approach to Heathrow, where Dad works. The girl's mother (Shaheen Khan) wants Jess to learn how to cook a complete Indian dinner, i.e. with meat and veg, marry a nice Indian boy as her older sister is soon to do, and go to the university. All Jess wants is to play football on the green with the lads. The conflict over career paths escalates when Jess is invited to play for the Hounslow Harriers, a girls' football club, by its star player Juliette (Keira Knightley). The Harriers are coached by Joe (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers), a young Irishman permanently sidelined by a leg injury. Joe quickly learns that, on the football field, Jess is positively "brilliant", and perhaps what American talent scouts are looking for.

If you loved MONSOON WEDDING and MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING, then this is your cup of Earl Grey. The film is bursting with energy and populated with an attractive and engaging cast. Nagra is effervescent in the lead as Jess. In a supporting role, Juliet Stevenson is perhaps the best as Juliette's totally clueless Mom, Paula. Anupam Kher as Jess's father starts out low key, but he grows on you as the film progresses.

After having seen BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM and MONSOON WEDDING, I'm convinced that Indian nuptials are exuberant riots of color, sound, and merriment, and that a sari is the most graceful of female garments. Please don't disabuse me of the notions.

Much of BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM is predictable, including a love triangle, but there are some unexpected comedic elements stemming from wrongly perceived sexual preferences that add extra spice to an already eminently entertaining film. As a puzzled member of the Bhamra extended family points out to an overwrought Paula, "Jess isn't Lebanese."

Unless it becomes a phenomenon like MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING, BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM is likely to stay in limited release. Seek it out for a feel-good outing. Trust me.

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Oligobi?
Family values and girl power rules in this movie.

The story is about a tomboy girl growing up in a traditional Indian family, which of course is more partial for her to be more feminine as she grows up and learn how to do housework. Jess, the tomboy star, is infatuated with soccer and her idol is avid Beckham and we all know what that leads to...her having the need to be just like him.

So behind her family's back, she sneaks around, join a women football team and have her gay bestfriend cover up for her. She has another new girlfriend named Jules, and both of them gets into a few weird fix with their family, eg their parents thinking they are lesbians. On the side, they are both in love with their coach and of course jealousy would really be in the way of their friendship.

One day, the coach got the team an European cup match and of course it would end up in the newspaper where the parents found out their daughter is still playing soccer! *gasps!*

Watch it if you like a story about family value and girl power. I'm mostly into this movie because of it's comedy ^_^