Gurinder Chadha, ( ਗੁਰਿੰਦਰ ਚੱਡਾ ) OBE, (born 10 January 1960) is a British film director of Indian origin. Most of her films explore the lives of Indians living in the UK. She is most famous for the hit films Bhaji on the Beach (1993), Bend It Like Beckham (2002), Bride and Prejudice (2004) and Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (2008).
Gurinder Chadha was born in Nairobi, Kenya, but her family moved to Southall, England when she was two years of...
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Gurinder Chadha, ( ਗੁਰਿੰਦਰ ਚੱਡਾ ) OBE, (born 10 January 1960) is a British film director of Indian origin. Most of her films explore the lives of Indians living in the UK. She is most famous for the hit films Bhaji on the Beach (1993), Bend It Like Beckham (2002), Bride and Prejudice (2004) and Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging (2008).
Gurinder Chadha was born in Nairobi, Kenya, but her family moved to Southall, England when she was two years of age. There Chadha attended Clifton Primary School. She got a job as a BBC Radio reporter until she made a documentary for Channel 4 in 1989. Chadha moved into film production in 1993. She is married to Japanese-American filmmaker Paul Mayeda Berges, with whom she sometimes collaborates. They have twins, son Ronak and daughter Kumiko, born in June 2007.
In the 1980s she began making documentaries for the BBC, and in 1989 released "I'm British but..." for Channel 4, which followed the lives of young British Asians. In 1990, Chadha set up a...
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