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: ⭐ 6.5/10 (219 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
Salford, North of England, 1976. 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.
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Cast

Om Puri
George Khan

Linda Bassett
Ella Khan

Jimi Mistry
Tariq Khan

Archie Panjabi
Meenah Khan

Chris Bisson
Saleem Khan

Lesley Nicol
Auntie Annie

Emil Marwa
Maneer Khan

Raji James
Abdul Khan

Ruth Jones
Peggy

John Bardon
Mr Moorhouse

Jimmi Harkishin
Iyaaz Ali Khan

Kriss Dosanjh
Poppa Khalid

Gary Lewis
Mark

Roger Morlidge
Fat Twat

Albert Moses
Abdul Karim

Rosalind March
Helen Karim

Madhav Sharma
Mr Shah

Saikat Ahamed
Zaid

Thierry Harcourt
Ettienne Francois

Leena Dhingra
Mrs Shah

Preeya Kalidas
Nazir's Bride (uncredited)








