Bend It Like Beckham South Korea, Martin Uden, said it was the "first ever Western-made film to air on television" in North Korea. A stage musical version of the film opened at London's Phoenix Theatre in June 2015. Bend It Like Beckham Bend It Like Beckham is a 2002 British-Indian family romantic comedy sports film produced, written and directed by Gurinder Chadha, and starring Parminder Nagra, Keira Knightley, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Anupam Kher, Shaznay Lewis and Archie Panjabi. The film's title refers to the football player David Beckham, and his skill at scoring from free kicks by curling the ball past a wall of
Bend It Like Beckham by the Spice Girls' Victoria Beckham and Melanie C and rock band Texas. It also features "Baddest Ruffest" by Backyard Dog, the aria "Nessun Dorma", from Puccini's "Turandot" and excerpts from dance band Basement Jaxx. The USA release rearranges the tracks and excludes some material. "Dream the Dream" appears in the movie but did not make the final cut on the soundtrack. To mark the tenth anniversary of North Korea's relations with the United Kingdom, an edited version of "Bend It Like Beckham" was broadcast on North Korean state television on 26 December 2010, Boxing Day. The British Ambassador to