Bend It Like Beckham also stars Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Anupam Kher, Juliet Stevenson, Shaznay Lewis, and Archie Panjabi, with a screenplay written by the director along with Paul Mayeda Berges and Guljit Bindra. In an interview, the director said, “A lot has changed since the original film, but I think that people still don’t think that women should play football. There are people who still don’t take it seriously.” She also hopes to reunite the original cast.