Gurinder Chadha: ‘I’ve carved out a whole career by celebrating difference’
The film director, 62, tells Michael Segalov about chapatis and jam, having twins in her late 40s, and her three-year struggle to get Bend It Like Beckham green-lit
July 2020
The week in TV: Homemade; Welcome to Chechnya: The Gay Purge; The Sinner and more
Netflix’s shorts by directors in lockdown was a mostly lucky dip while Storyville exposed the horrors of gay persecution in Chechnya
May 2020
Lockdown watch
Gurinder Chadha: 'I’ve written a whole new movie in lockdown'
The Bend It Like Beckham director on bingeing sitcoms, her DIY censorship method – and the film that inspired her
August 2019
My film is bridging cultural divides. This gives me hope in such polarised times
Sarfraz Manzoor
Blinded by the Light review – growing up with the Boss
July 2019
Steve Rose on film
We will classic rock you: when will the white guitarist conveyor belt end?
Blinded By the Light and Yesterday are essentially uncritical, feature-length promos for heritage bands, and there’s more to come
June 2019
Gurinder Chadha: Beecham House is a 'flipping radical thing'
Director says series will portray Indians as equal to their white counterparts
February 2019
Female film-makers dominate Sundance awards
Souvenirs, secrets and Springsteen: the best of Sundance 2019
January 2019
First look review
Blinded by the Light review – Bruce Springsteen inspires mawkish misfire
2019 arts preview
Partridge, politics and period pomp: the must-see TV shows of 2019
November 2018
Sundance 2019: Ocasio-Cortez doc and Ted Bundy biopic headline festival
Next year’s lineup features a documentary centered on the political star and a drama starring Zac Efron as the serial killer
May 2018
How a chance meeting with Bruce Springsteen gave a Luton musical its soundtrack
Gurinder Chadha’s film about the youth of a music-mad British Muslim will benefit from hits by Bruce Springsteen
August 2017
TV review
India’s Partition: The Forgotten Story review – Gurinder Chadha attempts to pin down a complex story
The film-maker’s short and personal investigation cannot begin to cover the necessary ground to make convincing arguments for how the partition of India came to be
March 2017
Fatima Bhutto on Indian partition film Viceroy’s House: ‘I watched this servile pantomime and wept’
Gurinder Chadha’s film is a glossy imperial version of India’s traumatic partition that scandalously misrepresents the historical reality
February 2017
Viceroy's House review – soapy account of India's birth agonies
Hugh Bonneville and Gillian Anderson play the Mountbattens in Gurinder Chadha cheekily Downtonised but watchable version of history
January 2017
A British film with a Punjabi heart: director’s personal take on partition
Hugh Jackman's Logan claws out world premiere in Berlin film festival
December 2016
The most exciting period and historical films of 2017
In the latest in our 10-part series on movie treats to look forward to, we run through the period dramas coming to screens next year
July 2015
TV and radio blog
Desi Rascals series two: bring on the sharp-tongued mums
It’s already the most believable reality show, but the Asian-based programme could only get better with more caustic mothers, more fights and a hijab or two
