Talk:Bend It Like Beckham

Sources needed

These points need to be sourced before being restored to the article. Per Wikipedia:Trivia sections, they should be integrated into the main body of the text.-Classicfilms (talk) 20:20, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

• The actresses were coached by Simon Clifford, who runs Futebol de Salão, a Brazilian soccer school.
• The Hounslow Harriers team doesn’t exist, but almost all the players are professional footballers.
• Many of the wedding guests are relatives of director Gurinder Chadha and played the scene as if it was a real wedding.
• Jess wears number 7 for the Hounslow Harriers, the same number David Beckham wears for England and once wore for Manchester United.
• 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.
• Although football-star David Beckham and the term “bend” are well-known throughout most of the world, they are almost unknown in the U.S. As such, when the time came for the film’s U.S release, 20th Century Fox marketing suggested changing the title to "Move it like Mia", to US football star Mia Hamm. Director Gurinder Chadha didn't agree to the name change and the film was released with its original title.
• Anupam Kher (Mr. Bhamra) is one of the superstars of Hindi cinema (Bollywood) and played in nearly 150 films during the last 20 years.
• Melanie C wanted her song "Independence Day" to be used in the film but the lyrics didn’t work so she rewrote them so the song could be used.
• In the original script, Jess and Jules were in love with each other, not with Joe.
• In the film Jess and Jules are the same age, in reality there is a 10 year age gap between Parminder Nagra (born 1975) and Kiera Knightly (born 1985)
• Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's Tere Bin Nahin Lagda is in this movie but Nusrat was actually dead years ago. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 114.143.64.208 (talk) 15:40, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

Plot Summary

Information in the plot summary is sparse in some places, while there is too much information in some places. The quotes from the movie are also unnecessary and shouldn’t be included. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.113.98.113 (talk) 03:31, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

Mr. Bhamra (Jess' father) was harassed off his cricket team in Nairobi, not England (although his teammates were English).Wi2g (talk) 19:52, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

I think he was discriminated in england. He says he was a fast baller in nairobi and won some (cant remember now) championship but when he came to england the 'goras' didint let him in their club. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Daneyal007 (talk • contribs) 07:44, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

Something wrong here: who is Pinky?

He or she is referred to, but we're not told who s/he is. Cooke (talk) 15:36, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

Good point. She's Jess's sister. After only 3 years, I added this piece of information. -- UKoch (talk) 19:34, 25 December 2011 (UTC)

And now I found out that it was already there, so I removed my own addition. Next time I'll read thoroughly before I edit. -- UKoch (talk) 17:54, 10 January 2012 (UTC)

Butchering

Someone butchered the article to say that the protagonist's name is Patty rather than Jess and that the film stars Angelina Jolie, rather than Parmindar Nagra. I made the change but someone should really look over the plot summary just in case. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 135.196.27.80 (talk) 10:08, 29 March 2009 (UTC)