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.
Known For
Complete Filmography
Christmas Karma
2025
Writer, Director, Producer
A story of an Indian who votes for the Conservative Party and hates refugees.

First Do No Pharm
2024
as Self
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
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
2021
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
2019
Director, Writer, Producer
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
2017
as Self
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
2017
as Herself
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
2017
Director
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
2017
Director, Producer, Writer
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
2010
Director, Screenplay, Producer
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
2008
Screenplay, Director, Producer
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
2006
Director, Writer
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
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
2005
Writer
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
2004
as Herself
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
2004
Director, Screenplay, Producer
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
2002
Producer, Director, Screenplay
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?
2000
Writer, Director, Associate Producer
Four families of different ethnicities prepare for a potentially explosive Thanksgiving dinner.

The Stupids
1996
as Reporter #1
An incredibly dull-witted family unknowingly stumble upon an illegal weapons deal while on the trail of their "stolen" garbage.

Rich Deceiver
1995
Director
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
1995
as Self
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?
1994
Producer, Director
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
1994
Screenplay, Director
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
1993
Writer, Director
A group of South Asian women try but cannot escape their problems on a day trip to a British beach resort.

Acting Our Age
1992
Director
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...
1990
Director, Writer
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
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
N/A
Director
Pashmina is a fantasy and adventure story that follows Priyanka, a first generation American of Indian descent, as she explores her family history wit...