East Is East is a BAFTA award-winning British comedy-drama film released in 1999.
It is set in a British household of mixed-ethnicity, with a Pakistani father and a English mother in Salford, Manchester, in 1971. George Khan (played by Om Puri), the father, expects his family to follow his strict Pakistani ways but his children who were born and grown up in Britain increasingly see themselves as British and reject their father's rules on dress, f...
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East Is East is a BAFTA award-winning British comedy-drama film released in 1999.
It is set in a British household of mixed-ethnicity, with a Pakistani father and a English mother in Salford, Manchester, in 1971. George Khan (played by Om Puri), the father, expects his family to follow his strict Pakistani ways but his children who were born and grown up in Britain increasingly see themselves as British and reject their father's rules on dress, food, religion, and living in general.
East Is East is based on the play of the same name by Ayub Khan-Din. It was directed by Damien O'Donnell.
George Khan an Pakistani immigrant who has lived in England since 1937 and has been married to Ella, a British woman with an Irish-Catholic background for 25 years, and has seven children with her - Nazir, Tariq, Abdul, Maneer, Saleem, Meenah and Sajid. The couple runs a popular chippy. The film starts with an arranged marriage of the eldest son to an intentionally attractive Pakistani girl. The son,...
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