Looking at how the ‘Bend it Like Beckham’ director has scripted a children’s fable, on the art of giving, with her holiday release that opens in theatres, December 12

I’ve figured a polite way to work around a rather rude question, as I first did with late Kundan Shah, about Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro (1983).

Which is to recall that Joseph Heller was once asked why he could never write another book as great as Catch-22. Heller had said then, “Nobody else could, either!” Read More

Likewise, for director Gurinder Chadha and her classic, Bend It Like Beckham (2002), isn’t it —that her company is named after, and that follows her still, with its ever-growing fans, no matter where she is, including onstage, with me, at the India Film Project fan-fest in Mumbai.

Chadha says, “[Bend It Like Beckha

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