The film director, 62, tells Michael Segalov about chapatis and jam, having twins in her late 40s, and her three-year struggle to get Bend It Like Beckham green-lit
‘I regret not having kids younger’: Gurinder Chadha.The film director, 62, on chapatis and jam, having twins in her late 40s, and her three-year struggle to get Bend It Like Beckham green-litof the immigrant experience, marked on my forehead forever. I was two when we arrived in England from Kenya, our family rented a single bedroom in London. When our landlord’s son pushed me face-first into a metal bed frame, I cried and cried; mum was devastated but couldn’t say anything.
That’s what we did.. I realised that when I was sent to cover some Travellers arriving in Birmingham. I was struck by their generosity and the beauty of their caravans, so I wrote a lovely article. My editor ripped it up and went with GYPSIES DESCEND ON CITY. It was a watershed moment – I needed control of my own stories.green-lit. Everyone said audiences wouldn’t be interested in an Indian girl playing football.
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