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Gurinder Chadha
English
Director
Born:
Jan 10
,
1960
First
Made
Me
People
World
You
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On the outside, America looks like this great melting pot, but on the inside, there's this segregation in American cinema. Why does a Latino film have to be for Latinos? Why is a black film just for black people? Why?
Gurinder Chadha
Great
People
Cinema
Black
Latino
Latinos
Melting
Melting Pot
Inside
Pot
Segregation
Outside
Like
Looks
Does
America
American
Just
Film
Why
I am not afraid to be a pioneer. When a door is ajar, you need to open it fully. And once you are in that room, you need to see what other doors there might be and where they might lead.
Gurinder Chadha
You
Doors
Other
Once
See
Lead
Open
Am
Pioneer
Afraid
Where
Door
Room
Might
Fully
Need
If you tell me I can't do something, that's the worst thing to tell me. And that's what I tell girls, and what Beckham's about: you can do it, you can do it better, and you can do it in the way you want.
Gurinder Chadha
Me
You
You Can Do It
Better
Girl
Way
Worst
Worst Thing
Tell
About
Something
Beckham
Want
Thing
Our films have the ability to tell global audiences who we are, and this is something the government should feel compelled to protect. My film, 'Bend it Like Beckham,' for example, would not have been made without the backing and support of the U.K. Film Council.
Gurinder Chadha
Government
Made
Example
Films
Bend
Our
Backing
Tell
Would
Ability
Something
Council
Support
Feel
Like
Global
For Example
Protect
Without
Beckham
Audiences
Been
Should
Who
Film
Compelled
I knew from an early age that people didn't see the different sides of me. I formulated a kind of bi-cultural identity quite early, and I was always very comfortable with it, but I knew people didn't quite see that.
Gurinder Chadha
Me
Age
People
Sides
Kind
See
Knew
Identity
Comfortable
Always
Very
Quite
Different
Different Sides
Early
Early Age
It's not simply that British films do well at the box office and generate revenue, it's that they provide a window to the world of what Britain and its culture is about.
Gurinder Chadha
Culture
World
Films
Window
About
Generate
Simply
Well
Box
Box Office
Revenue
Provide
Office
Britain
British
I love 'I'm British But...' It's such a sweet, innocent, open-hearted film, and it has the sort of openness that I still aspire to with everything I do. It wears its heart, head, everything on its sleeve.
Gurinder Chadha
Love
Heart
Innocent
Sweet
Sleeve
Everything
Wears
Head
Openness
Sort
Still
Aspire
Film
British
I'm absolutely delighted because I'm part of the process that has made Asians very much part of the mainstream fabric of Britain, whereas, when I first started, we were completely on the margin.
Gurinder Chadha
Made
First
Fabric
Delighted
Absolutely
Part
Mainstream
Because
Were
Very
Whereas
Process
Asians
Much
Margin
Started
Britain
'Up the Junction' really made me understand the power of cinema to create a vivid sense of a community. When I went on to make 'Bhaji on the Beach,' it was this sense I tried to recreate.
Gurinder Chadha
Me
Cinema
Made
Power
Sense
Community
Tried
Vivid
Beach
Recreate
Make
Understand
Up
Junction
Create
Really
I was a good Indian girl, but naughty in that I would often sneak out of the back door and into the garden and go off with my friends when I should have been at home cooking or cleaning.
Gurinder Chadha
Good
Home
Cleaning
Garden
Cooking
Naughty
Girl
Back
Back Door
Out
Would
Indian
Go
Been
Off
Sneak
Friends
Often
Door
Should
You'd be surprised how hard it is getting the human emotional arc in a script to work. Ultimately a director stands and falls by their ability to do that.
Gurinder Chadha
Work
You
Director
Arc
Ability
Emotional
How
Surprised
Falls
Ultimately
Getting
Human
Script
Hard
Stands
'Viceroy' is the first British film about the Raj and the transfer of power from Britain to India made by a British Indian director. It is a British film made from an Indian perspective.
Gurinder Chadha
Director
Perspective
Made
Power
First
India
Indian
About
Transfer
Film
Britain
British
I saw 'Billy Elliot' again, and what I loved about it was the way it had become a social document, a reminder of what happened with the mining communities in the '80s. And I thought, 'Everyone keeps wanting me to make a sequel to 'Beckham,' but maybe a musical remake is the answer, embracing all this theatricality.'
Gurinder Chadha
Me
Thought
Become
Everyone
Saw
Musical
Way
Mining
Embracing
About
Remake
Had
Reminder
Document
Make
Beckham
Answer
Maybe
Wanting
Happened
Loved
Again
Social
Communities
Sequel
Billy
Keeps
Indian films never show cows. When you go to India, the most noticeable thing is the cows. Everywhere you look, there's cows walking around! Just by introducing the idea of animals - livestock walking around - suddenly makes it more real.
Gurinder Chadha
You
Animals
Films
Everywhere
Introducing
India
Indian
More
Never
Idea
Look
Most
Around
Makes
Real
Go
Cows
Walking
Just
Noticeable
Show
Suddenly
Livestock
Thing
Once I started writing the screenplay of 'Bride & Prejudice,' I was convinced Jane Austen was a Punjabi in her previous birth.
Gurinder Chadha
Writing
Birth
Once
Previous
Austen
Screenplay
Jane
Jane Austen
Prejudice
Convinced
Bride
Her
Started
Australians have a fantastic sense of humour and incredible taste. I was there for 'Bend It Like Beckham,' and I had a great time. Aussies loved it, and I think 'Bride & Prejudice' is going to do well, too, because it's all about having a good time.
Gurinder Chadha
Time
Good
Great
Good Time
Sense
Think
Too
Bend
Incredible
Humour
About
Having
Having A Good Time
Had
Like
Great Time
Well
Because
Beckham
Australians
Taste
Going
Loved
Fantastic
Prejudice
Bride
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