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Gurinder Chadha's Bend It Like Beckham is one of the most successful British-Asian movies ever made. (Rings, 2011) The movie shows us the struggle between an Indian girl who wants to play football as a first step to modernity and her family who wants to protect its traditional values. There are many behavior and reasoning changes during the movie that lead to a shift from tradition to modernity and those behaviors should be analyzed in detail to make it clear.

The main representative of tradition in the movie is Jess’s mother Mrs. Bhamra. Religion and more importantly her faith in Guru Nanak’s portrait is what makes her a traditional person who wants to preserve her family’s traditions and culture. This attitude is closely linked to her perception of young Indian women as future wives for Indian men, as one of her statements suggests “What kind of family would want a daughter-in-law who can kick a football around all day but can’t make round chapatis? (Rings, 2011) Her strict behaviors start to soften towards the end of the movie when she understands that Jess would only be happy if she plays football. This is obvious when she stated: “At least I taught Jess a full …show more content…

During the movie she states several times that she wants to have a boyfriend from India just because her family wants it to be in that way. She also wants to learn how to cook traditional food since no family would want a daughter-in-law that kicks a ball around all day and doesn’t know how to cook. On the other hand, when her best friend Tony admits that he is homosexual she gets very surprised by saying “But you are Indian”. (Chadha, 2002) All of these attitudes shown by Jess make us understand that she can’t fully detach herself from Sikh traditions without getting helped from other members of her society and mostly by her

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