 Bend It Like Beckham 2002  PG-13, 112 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Gurinder Chadha
Cast: Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Anupam Kher, Archie Panjabi, Shaznay Lewis, Frank Harper, Juliet Stevenson, Shaheen Khan, Ameet Chana, Pooja Shah, Paven Virk, Saraj Chaudhry, Preeya Kalidas, Trey Farley
Amidst a clash of cultures, young Jess (Parminder Nagra) dreams of becoming a soccer player. Jess meets Jules (Keira Knightley) who plays on a local soccer team, and Jules, who is impressed with Jess' athletic skills, encourages Jess to try out for professional soccer. Meanwhile, Jess' parents (Anupam Kher and Shaheen Khan) want her to go to law school and learn to cook traditional East Indian recipes. In the midst of confusion, Jess must decide whether to follow her dream of becoming a soccer player or to follow her parents' plan for her future.
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Brave Heart Will Take the Bride 1995  N/R, 182 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Aditya Chopra
Cast: Shahrukh Khan, Kajol, Amrish Puri, Farida Jalal, Satish Shah, Achla Sachdev, Himani Shivpuri, Pooja Ruparel, Anupam Kher, Karan Johar
Raj lives in London and has had a good life to date. Meanwhile, Simran also lives in London under her stern father's care. Raj and Simran meet, and Raj falls in love. But Simran's father intends to take her back to India to marry a friend's son. After her departure, Raj follows her to India to try to convince her and her father to marry him.
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 Bride & Prejudice 2004 PG-13, 110 min.
Genre: Drama / Musical
Director: Gurinder Chadha
Cast: Aishwarya Rai, Martin Henderson, Daniel Gillies, Naveen Andrews, Marsha Mason, Namrata Shirodkar, Indira Varma, Nadira Babbar, Alexis Bledel, Anupam Kher, Meghna Kothari, Ashanti
Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" is once more brought to the screen. This time there is a twist: culture differences rather than class distinctions cause the problems. The story begins in India where farmer's daughter Lalita (Aishwarya Rai) meets wealthy American Will Darcy (Martin Henderson). Mutual contempt results from the onset, but all will change when Lalita and Will get past those first impressions.
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Second Generation 2003 TV, 136 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jon Sen
Cast: Parminder Nagra, Om Puri, Christopher Simpson, Anupam Kher, Danny Dyer, Nitin Chandra Ganatra, Rita Wolf, Amita Dhiri, Roshan Seth, Lalita Ahmed, William Beck
This made-for-TV, two-part miniseries revolves around an Indian family's problems when the father, Sharma (Om Puri), collapses into a coma. Estranged daughter Heere (Parminder Nagra) returns to their London home and finds her two sisters (Amita Dhiri and Rita Wolf) ready to turn off their father's life support machine and take control of his business. Then, Sharma wakes up, and Heera tries to make peace, but there are many problems to overcome.
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| 1. Bend It Like Beckham (2002)
2. Brave Heart Will Take the Bride (1995)
3. Bride & Prejudice (2004)
4. Second Generation (2003)
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