May 14, 1999
97 min
Full-HD

East Is East (1999)

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.

Category

Drama Comedy

Country

United Kingdom

Companies

Assassin Films Film4 Productions BBC

Om Puri

George Khan

Linda Bassett

Ella Khan

Ian Aspinall

Nazir Khan

Jimi Mistry

Tariq Khan

Archie Panjabi

Meenah Khan

Jordan Routledge

Sajid Khan

Chris Bisson

Saleem Khan

Lesley Nicol

Auntie Annie

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