Bend It Like Beckham Sociology

Bend it Like Beckham uses the metaphor of football (soccer) to explore and discuss race, gender, and ethnicity in contemporary London. 18-year-old Jesminder "Jess" Bhamra (Parminder Nagra) is a British Indian Punjabi Sikh living in the western suburbs of London. Her older sister, Pinky (Archie Panjabi), is preoccupied with fashion and her upcoming wedding to her boyfriend Teetu (Kulvinder Ghir), who operates a successful automobile business. Jess' father (the noted actor, Anupam Kher ) is a Kenyan Indian and both her mother (Shaheen Khan) and father are Punjabi immigrants in Britain who work at nearby Heathrow Airport.
As Jess is the more studious of the two daughters, her parents push her towards academic achievement in the hope that she will achieve the financial success which evaded them. Their goal is for her to attend university and become a Solicitor. In contrast, Jess only dreams of becoming a professional football player, inspired by the football star, David Beckham. She expresses her dreams in two ways: first by secretly confiding to a poster of David Beckham which hangs in her bedroom (these "conversations" are contrasted in the film with her parent's show of veneration to a portrait of Sikhism founder, Guru Nanak Dev Ji,
Joe arrives to say goodbye and to tell Jess that he was offered a job coaching the men's team, but turned it down to help the women's team turn professional. He tells her that he told his estranged father about his new job, and she is pleased, since she had encouraged him throughout the film to reconnect with his father. Joe asks Jess if, despite the distance and her family, they might still have a chance for a relationship. They kiss, but are interrupted by the sudden appearance of David Beckham and his wife, Victoria (or Posh, one of the Spice Girls). Jess tells Joe that she will be back at Christmas and will try to explain her relationship with Joe to her parents at that