Biography
Guljit Bindra is a British screenwriter. She co-wrote the screenplay for the 2002 film Bend It Like Beckham with Gurinder Chadha and Paul Mayeda Berges.
Bindra is London-based. A former student of the London College of Printing, she worked as a journalist, including as Arts Editor of the Asian Herald. In the mid-1990s she began developing film ideas and collaborated with Chadha on the script that became Bend It Like Beckham, her first screenplay project.
She received a nomination for the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Original Screenplay for the film in 2004. Bindra appeared as herself on the television series Movie Connections in 2007.
