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EAST IS EAST
(1999)
- Copyright date
- 1999
- Production start date
- 05/10/1998
- Production end date
- Not available
Production countries
- Great Britain
- Notes
- Not available
Library Synopsis
Comedy. Proud Pakistani chip shop owner, George Khan, married to an Englishwoman, rules his family with a rod of iron. He thinks he is raising his seven children to be respectable Muslims. But this is 1971 in Salford, in the north of England, and the children find themselves caught between arranged marriages and wanting to be part of the modern world.
Top five credits
- Director
- O'DONNELL, Damien
- Copyright/©
- Film Four Limited
- Production Company
- Assassin Films
- In association with The
- BBC
- Developed with the support of
- MEDIA Programme of the European Union
Top five cast
- George Khan
- PURI, Om
- Ella Khan
- BASSETT, Linda
- Sajid Khan
- ROUTLEDGE, Jordan
- Meenah Khan
- PANJABI, Archie
- Maneer Khan
- MARWA, Emil