Gurinder Chadha on to a movie about Indian woman spy during WW II

Director Gurinder Chadha, a Sikh whose family once lived in Kenya, is a British citizen with an honour like the Order of The British Empire in her cap, which also boasts of a remarkable work like Bend It Like Beckham in 2002. The film follows the life of an 18-year-old Sikh girl in England, whose passion for football and infatuation for David Beckham are strongly opposed by her family. She is a girl, and she cannot play football - a kind of prejudice we saw even



recently in Dangal. Chadha -- who has been exploring through her cinema the lives of Indian women in the UK and their dilemma over trying to balance tradition with modernity - is now developing a movie about an Indian woman who was a kind of Mata Hari. It will be a plot of espionage set in 1943, Chadha told the media at the ongoing Berlin International Film Festival, where she presented her latest movie, Viceroy’s House, set during the blood-soaked times of the 1947 Partition.