East Is East

Name: East Is East
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: 1999-05-14
Rating: 3.6268
Cast: Om Puri, Linda Bassett, Jimi Mistry, Archie Panjabi, Lesley Nicol

A comedy of families, a chip shop... and a very randy dog.

Summary

In 1971 Salford fish-and-chip shop owner George Khan expects his family to follow his strict Pakistani Muslim ways. But his children, with an English mother and having been born and brought up in Britain, increasingly see themselves as British and start to reject their father's rules on dress, food, religion, and living in general.

Details

Release Date: May 14, 1999

Runtime: 97 minutes

Genres: Drama, Comedy

Original Language: EN

Rating: ⭐ 6.6/10 (215 votes)

East Is East Collection

East Is East
In 1971 Salford fish-and-chip shop owner George Khan expects his family to follow his strict Pakistani Muslim ways. But his children, with an English mother and having been born and brought up in Britain, increasingly see themselves as British and start to reject their father's rules on dress, food, religion, and living in general.
West Is West
Manchester, North of England, 1975. The now much diminished, but still dysfunctional, Khan family continues to struggle for survival. Sajid, the youngest Khan is deep in pubescent crisis under heavy assault both from his father's tyrannical insistence on Pakistani tradition, and from the fierce bullies in the schoolyard. So, in a last, desperate attempt to 'sort him out', his father decides to pack him off to Mrs Khan No 1 and family in the Punjab, the wife and daughters he had abandoned 35 years earlier.