Details

Release year: 2002

Storyline

Jess Bhamra dreams of playing professional football, but her Sikh parents have plans for her: a law degree and a marriage. Jules, a white female striker, spots Jess playing football and invites her to join the local women's team.

Top credits

Directors

Gurinder Chadha

Writers

Cast

Parminder Nagra — Jess
Keira Knightley — Jules
Jonathan Rhys Meyers — Joe
Anupam Kher — Mr. Bhamra

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Awards

0 wins & 1 nomination

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Did you know

• Parminder Nagra was worried that the scar on her leg would prevent her from getting the role of Jess. Instead, the scar, and the story behind it, were worked into the script.

• The chauffeur driver of the Rolls Royce in the wedding scene was not an actor, but an actual chauffeur, and was unaware he was in a film. He believed instead that it was simply a wedding with a lot of cameras. It was only discovered he was in the film when, to their surprise, one of his relatives saw him in the background.

• This was the first Western film allowed to be shown in North Korean television, to mark the ten year anniversary of diplomatic ties between the country and the United Kingdom, in 2010. The film however had to however have eight minutes edited out of it for the broadcast to be approved.