In this essay, I will be looking at the film

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HOW DOES BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM PORTRAYS POSITIVE PICTURE OF RACE RELATION.

In this essay, I will be looking at the film “Bend It Like Beckham” by Gurinder Chadha. In particular I will be examine how this film portrays the positive picture of race relation by considering how the film uses representation, Genre, how people were been stereotyped and the particular audience it was aimed at.

         The opening sequence of the film really gives an immediate idea about the genre. We see Mrs.Bamra as a commentator at a studio  nagging Jess her daughter who is very fascinated in playing football to go home immediately and stop showing her bare legs to millions of people. This shows that the film is really based on an ethnic comedy.

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         Also, in considering the way that the Bamra family were shown in the film, they are represented to be a very rigid Indian family and that always wanted to do things according to the Indian tradition but there was on thing going wrong Jess the younger daughter in the Bamra family did not want to be more Indian but instead she is drawn to the delight of football, a high profile commercial western game.

        We can also see that the friends and families of the Bamra family were represented to be more Indian and strict because of their culture and ...

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