Hello and welcome to Sentimental Garbage, the podcast where we talk about the culture we love that society sometimes makes us feel ashamed of.

My name is Caroline and there is a reason that Spority Spice is the only one of them without a fella.

And we taught her full Indian dinner, the rest is up to God. It's Nikki Babachiani.

Thank you so much for having me, Caroline.

What a great intro.

You're such perfect lines.

This is such an exciting day.

We're finally doing Bend It Like Beckham.

Thank you so much for coming to me with this movie.

I was so surprised when I was doing my little background research on you that you are American,

that you're from New York. And I was like, wow, I think of this film as such a British film.

And it kind of, it sort of almost appalled me that Americans have heard of it.

Tell me, how did it come into your life?

So I actually saw this movie when I was in India on vacation.

And I remember it was this like movie theater. It's kind of this like movie complex I had just opened up.

And it was like so empty. And it was just me and my family in this empty movie theater watching Bended like Beckham. And it was such a incredible movie. I mean, at the time when I saw it there, I was like, I've never seen anything like it.

And I feel like that, I think maybe because the history of Indian people in the UK is so much older, right, that it has been in America.

Although, I mean, I'm sure there's five contexts.

I'm missing.

But from my perception, right?

It was just this kind of, yeah, like it was this movie that I'm not sure I would have seen in America.

And it's funny that you say this because I was doing some research yesterday.

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