All of 17, Rhea Raheja is scripting a new age tale of Bend It Like Beckham. The enterprising teen is running a football club, free of cost, exclusively for girls from a civic school in Khar. Rhea doubles up as a coach for the girls as well as fundraiser for the club using her creative talents during her free time. Her dream is now to organise a football tournament for these girls so that they get a chance to showcase their talent.

Rhea, a district-level football player herself, discovered a giant anomaly while volunteering as teacher at the Laxmi Nagar BMC School in Khar. "While interacting with the girls, they started talking about how they did not get to play any sport at the professional level, especially compared with the boys from their school," said Rhea, a Std XII student from Ecole Mondial World School, who has been a volunteer teacher in civic schools since 2016.