you have to keep pushing forward. i don't think anybody has the right stopping it. you push forward not only for yourself, but for everybody else. and that is why bend it like beckham is such an important film, because it takes me and my community and my world and my britishness and my asian—ness and everything into a massive sphere and it's something that is really important to so many people around the world. over her 30 year career, she has been a real powerhouse, making shorts, documentaries, tv programmes and tv series and of course memorable vibrant feature films. from bride & prejudice, a bollywood style version of hollywood to's pride and prejudice... only you could say that you love me and insult me the same time. to first feature, badji on the beach, in 1993.