Bend It Like Beckham the role of Jess's mother, Mrs Bhamra, Chadha turned to Shaheen Khan, whom she had previously cast in "Bhaji on the Beach". Anupam Kher, a Bollywood actor, was cast as Mr Bhamra, Jess's father. Chadha worked with The Football Association and ended up casting actual players from a variety of school teams. "Bend It Like Beckham" was released theatrically on 12 April 2002 by Redbus Film Distribution. The film then received a limited theatrical release in the United States on 12 March 2003, by Fox Searchlight Pictures. When originally released in the United Kingdom, it topped the country's box office
I Proud to Be an Indian I Proud to Be an Indian I Proud to Be an Indian (, ) is a 2004 Indian Bollywood action film written and directed by Puneet Sira and produced by Sohail Khan. The film, about racism against Asians in London, was shot in a span of 30 days in U.K. and budgeted between Rs. 4.5 and Rs. 5 crores. The film starts when a Sikh couple alight from a bus at night time on a isolated street. The woman is pregnant. They are followed by racist goons and are attacked. Later I (Sohail Khan) along with his father Kulbhushan Kharbanda