Gurinder Chadha

Gurinder Chadha

1960-01-10 Nairobi, Kenya 28 Credits

Biography

Gurinder Chadha, OBE, is a British film director of Indian origin. Most of her films explore the lives of Indians living in the United Kingdom. She is best known 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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Gurinder Chadha, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Christmas Karma

2025

Writer, Director, Producer

Writing Directing Producing

A story of an Indian who votes for the Conservative Party and hates refugees.

First Do No Pharm

First Do No Pharm

2024

as Self

Acting

We have had too much medicine for too many years. The time to act is now. How one doctor's fight against corporate greed led to an ancient, life-chang...

Queen Victoria and the British Maharajah

2022

as Self - Presenter

Acting

From the real-life Downton Abbey to her Southall roots, acclaimed filmmaker Gurinder Chadha explores the remarkable life story of Prince Victor Duleep...

2 Tone: The Sound of Coventry

2 Tone: The Sound of Coventry

2021

7.8
Acting

The story of how 2 Tone, a record label from Coventry went on to have a global impact. The brainchild of Jerry Dammers saw dance music with a message ...

Blinded by the Light

Blinded by the Light

2019

Director, Writer, Producer

6.9
Directing Writing Producing

In 1987, during the austere days of Thatcher’s Britain, a teenager learns to live life, understand his family, and find his own voice through the musi...

I Hate Jane Austen

I Hate Jane Austen

2017

as Self

Acting

While it may be universally acknowledged that she’s one of the great English writers, Giles Coren breaks down his many reasons for hating Jane Austen.

India's Partition: The Forgotten Story

India's Partition: The Forgotten Story

2017

as Herself

10.0
Acting

In this documentary, British film-maker Gurinder Chadha, director of Bend It Like Beckham and Viceroy's House, travels from Southall to Delhi to find ...

India's Partition: The Forgotten Story

India's Partition: The Forgotten Story

2017

Director

10.0
Directing

In this documentary, British film-maker Gurinder Chadha, director of Bend It Like Beckham and Viceroy's House, travels from Southall to Delhi to find ...

Viceroy's House

Viceroy's House

2017

Director, Producer, Writer

6.6
Directing Producing Writing

In 1947, Lord Mountbatten assumes the post of last Viceroy, charged with handing India back to its people, living upstairs at the house which was the ...

It's a Wonderful Afterlife

It's a Wonderful Afterlife

2010

Director, Screenplay, Producer

4.8
Directing Writing Producing

Indian mother Mrs Sethi's obsession with marrying off her daughter turns murderous. With jokes that routinely miss the mark and cringeworthy slapstick...

Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging

Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging

2008

Screenplay, Director, Producer

6.5
Writing Directing Producing

Georgia Nicolson is fourteen, lives with nosey parents who don't understand her, an annoying three year old sister and has to wear a beret to school. ...

Paris Je T'aime

Paris Je T'aime

2006

Director, Writer

6.8
Directing Writing

Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories,...

Quais de Seine

2006

Director, Writer

5.0
Directing Writing

This short from the anthology film Paris, je t’aime looks at the meeting between two teenagers, one a catcaller and the other a Muslim girl. Directed ...

The Mistress of Spices

The Mistress of Spices

2005

Writer

6.2
Writing

Tilo is an Indian shopkeeper in America with an ability to see the future and a magical connection to powerful spices, which she uses to help her cust...

Two Tone Britain

Two Tone Britain

2004

as Herself

4.9
Acting

Documentary tracing the history of the Two Tone record label which emerged in the late 1970s, the bands linked to it and their musical influences, and...

Bride & Prejudice

Bride & Prejudice

2004

Director, Screenplay, Producer

6.5
Directing Writing Producing

Mrs. Bakshi is eager to find suitors for her four unmarried daughters when a family friend introduces them to handsome American Will Darcy. A Bollywoo...

Bend It Like Beckham

Bend It Like Beckham

2002

Producer, Director, Screenplay

6.3
Producing Directing Writing

Jess Bhamra, the daughter of a strict Indian couple in London, is not permitted to play organized soccer, even though she is 18. When Jess is playing ...

What's Cooking?

What's Cooking?

2000

Writer, Director, Associate Producer

5.6
Writing Directing Producing

Four families of different ethnicities prepare for a potentially explosive Thanksgiving dinner.

The Stupids

The Stupids

1996

as Reporter #1

4.7
Acting

An incredibly dull-witted family unknowingly stumble upon an illegal weapons deal while on the trail of their "stolen" garbage.

Rich Deceiver

Rich Deceiver

1995

Director

1.0
Directing

Ellie and Malc Freeman are a working-class couple in their forties who live in a terrace house in a poor district of Liverpool. Ellie has a part-time ...

Cinefile: Reel Women

Cinefile: Reel Women

1995

as Self

Acting

Interviews with women directors working in Hollywood and Europe in the early 1990s, exploring the opportunities and obstacles that face them. A progra...

What Do You Call an Indian Woman Who's Funny?

What Do You Call an Indian Woman Who's Funny?

1994

Producer, Director

Producing Directing

What do you call an Indian woman who's funny in 20th Century Britain? A British performer? A Black comedienne? An enigma? This humorous and comedic do...

A Nice Arrangement

A Nice Arrangement

1994

Screenplay, Director

6.0
Writing Directing

Documents an Indian-English family's attempt to give their Briticized daughter a traditional Indian arranged marriage, with as much photography as pos...

Bhaji on the Beach

Bhaji on the Beach

1993

Writer, Director

5.4
Writing Directing

A group of South Asian women try but cannot escape their problems on a day trip to a British beach resort.

Acting Our Age

Acting Our Age

1992

Director

6.0
Directing

This humorous and thought-provoking film documents the residents of a South Asian home for the elderly in Britain. Director Gurinder Chadha assists th...

I'm British But...

I'm British But...

1990

Director, Writer

5.0
Directing Writing

I'm British but... uncovers a defiant popular culture, part Asian, part British, against a backdrop of fading English nationalism. The rhythms of Bhan...

Untitled Aardman Animated Musical

N/A

Director, Screenplay

Directing Writing

An animated musical that tells the story of a young Indian elephant from the jungles of Kerala with the impossible dream of becoming a Bollywood dance...

Pashmina

Pashmina

N/A

Director

Directing

Pashmina is a fantasy and adventure story that follows Priyanka, a first generation American of Indian descent, as she explores her family history wit...