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Bend It Like Beckham director explains why now is the perfect time for a sequel

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The Independent UK

Bend It Like Beckham director explains why now is the time for a sequel

Bend it like Beckham directer, Gurinder Chadha, has explained why now is the right time for a sequel in the wake of Lionesses support and success.

The Independent UK

Bend It Like Beckham sequel is in the works, says Gurinder Chadha

Gurinder Chadha has confirmed that a Bend It Like Beckham sequel is in the works.

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Bend It Like Beckham sequel in works more than 20 years after first film

Director Gurinder Chadha OBE says she has finally found the right story for a follow-up

The Independent UK

Bend It Like Beckham follow-up in pipeline more than 20 years after original film was released

More than two decades after the release of Bend It Like Beckham, writer and director Gurinder Chadha OBE has announced she is planning to revive the hugely popular story

The Guardian - UK

Tammy Beaumont welcomes Sophie Ecclestone’s England return

Ecclestone missed the clean sweep of the West Indies.

The Independent UK

‘Greatest teen movie ever’: why Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging is my feelgood movie

The latest in an ongoing series of writers highlighting their go-to mood-lifting movies looks back at the 2008 Eastbourne-set teen comedy

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Film advent calendar: 24 festive movies chosen by leading film figures

Count down to Christmas with favourites selected by Sean Baker, Gillian Anderson, John Waters, Mike Leigh, Gurinder Chadha, Will Sharpe and more

The Guardian - UK

Film advent calendar: count down to Christmas with 24 movies chosen by leading actors and directors

Sean Baker, Gillian Anderson, Mike Leigh, Gurinder Chadha and other figures from film and television select their festive favourites

The Guardian - UK

Chloe Kelly interview: Wembley glory not enough, I want to lead the Lionesses to even more success

Bend It Like Beckham director Gurinder Chadha reflects on the success of the film over 20 years on

Evening Standard

Game, set and match: the 20 best sports movies

As Luca Guadagnino’s tennis film Challengers makes its case for sporting immortality, critic Guy Lodge chooses 20 of the genre’s undisputed heavyweights

The Guardian - UK

King views photo of site where mother became Queen during Kenyan diaspora visit

The then Princess Elizabeth and husband Philip were staying at Treetops, a lodge deep in Aberdare National Park, when King George VI died.

The Independent UK

Support grows for bank holiday if Lionesses win World Cup final

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer was among those lending his voice to the campaign.

The Independent UK

Calls for a bank holiday if Lionesses win World Cup final

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer was among those lending his voice to the campaign.

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Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging, as told by its stars: ‘I still get asked – are you Slaggy Lindsay?’

Fifteen years ago, a British comedy about the pressures of being a teenage girl became a generation-defining hit. To celebrate its birthday, Isobel Lewis spoke to director Gurinder Chadha and many of its stars – including Georgia Groome and Eleanor Tomlinson – about on-set crushes, sneaky fag breaks and coming…

The Independent UK

The surprising way Harrison Ford unknowingly helped get Bend It Like Beckham made

Film’s director, Gurinder Chadha, said Ford had a brilliant response when she finally got to thank him at this year’s Cannes Film Festival

The Independent UK

The surprising way Harrison Ford unknowingly helped get Bend It Like Beckham made

Film’s director, Gurinder Chadha, said Ford had a brilliant response when she finally got to thank him at this year’s Cannes Film Festival

Evening Standard

Keira Knightley says she was ‘mocked’ for starring in Bend it Like Beckham

The actress revealed that people told her starring in the Gurinder Chadha-directed film was ‘embarrassing’

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The Guardian - UK

‘I’ll do for Bury Park what Richard Curtis did for Notting Hill!’: a tour of Luton’s Muslim district

Leading a group of visitors around the neighbourhood I grew up in seemed a good chance for me to build trust between communities. But gut-wrenching memories kept coming back

The Guardian - UK

Gurinder Chadha: ‘I’ve carved out a whole career by celebrating difference’

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

Evening Standard

Londoner’s Diary: £100,000 needed to save Dame Judi Dench’s theatre roof

In Today’s Diary: Dame Judi’s leaky roof / Truss’s focus all on No 10 / TfL to celebrate Mornington Crescent game / Bend it Like Beckham director celebrates Lionesses win

The Guardian - UK

Bend It Like Beckham: 20 Years On review – this lighthearted doc made me rewatch the film (and weep)

In 2002 I felt the movie had nothing to say to British Asians like me, or my football-mad mum. This engaging doc shows how much, and how little, has changed

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