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Charles Hart: season.a Moment and Howard Goodall

charles hart: Chadha, who wrote and directed the film, adapted it into a musical with music by Howard Goodall and lyrics by Charles Hart, with Chadha co-writing the book with her husband, filmmaker Paul Mayeda Berges, according to Toronto Star. The musical opened on the West End in London in 2015, and was nominated for five Olivier Awards that season.A moment from the West End London production of Bend It Like Beckham, a stage adaptation of the film. courtesy Starvox Entertainment It flowed for us. It's been over 17 years since Gurinder Chadha's film premiered, launching the careers of Parminder Nagra and Keira Knightley and earning 70 million worldwide with the intercultural coming-of-age story of Jesminder Jess Bhamra, a Beckham-obsessed teenager in west London who begins playing soccer behind her conservative Punjabi Sikh family's back. We knew where the songs needed to be in the story. You do go on the same ride as the movie but it's much emotionally richer I think. We knew the essence of the story, the essence of Jess and her father's journeys. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.