---
name: "Guljit Bindra"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/guljit-bindra"
fi1m_id: "guljit-bindra"
imdb_id: "nm0996493"
tmdb_id: 6221
wikidata_id: "Q95870128"
roles: ["Writer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-03T08:12:38.940014+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Guljit Bindra

## Identity

Guljit Bindra

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/guljit-bindra
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** guljit-bindra
- **IMDb ID:** nm0996493
- **TMDB ID:** 6221
- **Wikidata ID:** Q95870128
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q95870128, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0996493/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/6221

Writer.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q95870128, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0996493/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/6221

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Bend It Like Beckham*](https://film.one/film/bend-it-like-beckham.md) (76)

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## 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.

*Sources: imdb.com, cinema.com, glasgowguardian.co.uk, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Bend It Like Beckham* (2002), Fi1m 76, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/bend-it-like-beckham.md)

## Complete filmography (1)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Bend It Like Beckham* (2002), Writer — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/bend-it-like-beckham.md)

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