--- name: "Gurinder Chadha" canonical: "https://film.one/person/gurinder-chadha" fi1m_id: "gurinder-chadha" imdb_id: "nm0149446" tmdb_id: 6220 wikidata_id: "Q259348" roles: ["Producer","Director"] born: "10 January 1960" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "producer" average_over: 0 updated: "2026-10-03T08:12:20.135620+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." --- # Gurinder Chadha ## Identity Gurinder Chadha - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/gurinder-chadha - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** gurinder-chadha - **IMDb ID:** nm0149446 - **TMDB ID:** 6220 - **Wikidata ID:** Q259348 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurinder_Chadha, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q259348, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0149446/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/6220 Producer and director. Born 10 January 1960 in Nairobi, Kenya. ## Details - **Work:** Producer, Director - **Born:** 10 January 1960, Nairobi, Kenya - **Also known as:** 거린더 채다, Gurinder Chadha OBE, Gurinder Kaur Chadha - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurinder_Chadha, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q259348, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0149446/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/6220 ## Streaming the US now - **Disney+:** [*Bend It Like Beckham*](https://film.one/film/bend-it-like-beckham.md) (76) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Biography Gurinder Chadha is a Kenyan-born British film director, screenwriter and producer. She was born in Nairobi on 10 January 1960 and grew up in Southall, west London. She began her career as a BBC radio news reporter, directed award-winning documentaries for the BBC, the British Film Institute and Channel 4, and made her feature debut with the comedy-drama *Bhaji on the Beach* (1993). Chadha is best known for *Bend It Like Beckham* (2002), which she directed, co-wrote and co-produced. Her other credits include *Bride & Prejudice* (2004), *Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging* (2008), *Viceroy's House* (2017) and *Blinded by the Light* (2019). Many of her films explore the experiences of South Asians in Britain. She received an OBE in 2006 for services to the British film industry and is married to screenwriter and director Paul Mayeda Berges. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, screenonline.org.uk, southasianbritain.org.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *Bend It Like Beckham* (2002), Fi1m 76, as Woman in Park/Wedding Guest (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/bend-it-like-beckham.md) ## Complete filmography (27) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Christmas Karma* (2025), Director, Producer, Lyricist, Screenplay - *2 Tone: The Sound of Coventry* (2021), Actor - *Homemade* (2020), series, Director, Director of Photography, Writer - *Blinded by the Light* (2019), Director, Writer, Producer - *Beecham House* (2019), series, Writer, Director, Creator - *India's Partition: The Forgotten Story* (2017), Director - *Viceroy's House* (2017), Director, Writer, Producer - *It's a Wonderful Afterlife* (2010), Producer, Director, Screenplay - *Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging* (2008), Screenplay, Director, Producer - *Paris Je T'aime* (2006), Director, Writer - *Quais de Seine* (2006), Director, Writer - *The Mistress of Spices* (2005), Writer - *Bride & Prejudice* (2004), Director, Producer, Screenplay - *Bend It Like Beckham* (2002), as Woman in Park/Wedding Guest (uncredited) · Director, Producer, Writer — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/bend-it-like-beckham.md) - *What's Cooking?* (2000), Director, Writer, Associate Producer - *The Stupids* (1996), as Reporter #1 - *Rich Deceiver* (1995), Director - *What Do You Call an Indian Woman Who's Funny?* (1994), Producer, Director - *A Nice Arrangement* (1994), Screenplay, Director, Story - *Bhaji on the Beach* (1993), Director, Writer - *Acting Our Age* (1992), Director - *I'm British But...* (1990), Director, Writer - *The Neverending Pillow Fort*, Screenplay - *Untitled Aardman Animated Musical*, Screenplay, Director - *Untitled Bend It Like Beckham Sequel*, Director, Writer - *London, I Love You*, Director, Writer - *Pashmina*, Director ## Gallery - ![Gurinder Chadha](https://film.one/media/person/5519695/gallery-f17ca517809c.jpg) Gurinder Chadha — Montclair Film, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/Gurinder_Chadha.jpg/1280px-Gurinder_Chadha.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Director Gurinder Chadha presenting her film Viceroy's House at the Berlinale 2017](https://film.one/media/person/5519695/gallery-61f8750acf0d.jpg) Director Gurinder Chadha presenting her film Viceroy's House at the Berlinale 2017 — Martin Kraft, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/MJK32962_Gurinder_Chadha_%28Viceroy%27s_House%2C_Berlinale_2017%29.jpg/1280px-MJK32962_Gurinder_Chadha_%28Viceroy%27s_House%2C_Berlinale_2017%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Gurinder Chadha at the premiere of Blinded by the Light during the Montclair Film Festival 2019.](https://film.one/media/person/5519695/gallery-a3a8e2bc87c7.jpg) Gurinder Chadha at the premiere of Blinded by the Light during the Montclair Film Festival 2019. — Montclair Film, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Blinded_by_the_Light_%2846934628555%29.jpg/1280px-Blinded_by_the_Light_%2846934628555%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Director Gurinder Chadha presenting her film Viceroy's House at the Berlinale 2017](https://film.one/media/person/5519695/gallery-b2614012ca9c.jpg) Director Gurinder Chadha presenting her film Viceroy's House at the Berlinale 2017 — Martin Kraft, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/MJK32819_Gurinder_Chadha_%28Viceroy%27s_House%2C_Berlinale_2017%29.jpg/1280px-MJK32819_Gurinder_Chadha_%28Viceroy%27s_House%2C_Berlinale_2017%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Chadha at International Women's Day 2013](https://film.one/media/person/5519695/gallery-e0a0e5cb61cf.jpg) Chadha at International Women's Day 2013 — U.S. Embassy London, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Gurinder_Chadha_2013.jpg/1280px-Gurinder_Chadha_2013.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Gurinder Chadha at the premiere of Blinded by the Light during the Montclair Film Festival 2019.](https://film.one/media/person/5519695/gallery-92b766f71fc9.jpg) Gurinder Chadha at the premiere of Blinded by the Light during the Montclair Film Festival 2019. — Montclair Film, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Blinded_by_the_Light_%2832906869337%29.jpg/1280px-Blinded_by_the_Light_%2832906869337%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) ## Awards ### Other awards — 2 won, 1 nominated - BBC 100 Women 2013: BBC 100 Women (won) - honorary doctorate 2009: honorary doctorate (won) - European Film Award for Best Film 2002: European Film Award for Best Film (nominated), for *Bend It Like Beckham* *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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