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Maybe this is the wrong place to put this but well, it's good for the Punjabi community in general so: "This is the most irresistibly joyous musical-theatre make-over of a much-loved movie since Billy Eliot. It does more for genuine Girl Power in the span of an evening than an eternity of Viva Forever! (the short-lived Spice Girls juke-box venture) could have achieved. And how rare and refreshing in this particular genre to find young characters who aspire to something different from breaking into show business. Another reason to welcome the piece in which Gurinder Chadha, director and co-author of the phenomenally successful 2002 film, has masterminded a version that reinvents rather than recycles the material. So how do they do the soccer then? I refuse to tell you by what varied and suspenseful ways the production suggests the trajectory of the fateful kicks, but I will say that, as an uplifting celebration of multi-cultural Britain, this show plays a blinder." http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/reviews/bend-it-like-beckham-the-musical-phoenix-theatre-first-night-review-joyous-and-refreshing-revival-of-gurinder-chadhas-film-10342096.html?icn=puff-3