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
A Girl Like Her WomenWho Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before" Roe v. Wade", places the women’s stories within the social history of the time period and Fessler’s story as an adoptee. It was a nonfiction finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2006 and received the Women’s Way Ballard Book Prize in 2008, a prize given annually to a female author who makes a significant contribution to the dialogue about women’s rights. "A Girl Like Her" premiered at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival "in April 2012" "and went on to screen at the "Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival",