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  1. East Is East is a 1999 British comedy-drama film written by Ayub Khan-Din and directed by Damien O'Donnell. It is set in Salford, Lancashire (now in Greater Manchester), in 1971, in a mixed-ethnicity British household headed by Pakistani father George and an English mother, Ella (Linda Bassett).

    • Ayub Khan-Din
    • 1996
  2. Currently you are able to watch "East Is East" streaming on Hoopla. It is also possible to buy "East Is East" on Apple TV, Amazon Video, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Vudu as download or rent it on Amazon Video, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Vudu online.

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  3. East Is East (1999) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.

  4. Apr 14, 2000 · George Khan, proud Pakistani and chip shop owner -- Ghengis to his kids -- rules his family with a rod of iron. He thinks he's raising his seven children to be respectable Pakistanis. But this is...

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  5. Parents need to know that East Is East is a superb British dramedy about a British-Pakistani family struggling with their identity in 1970s Britain. Pakistani-born George Khan (Om Puri) wants his British-born, multiracial children to embrace his traditional cultural and religious values.

    • Damien O'donnell
    • Alistair Lawrence
    • Om Puri, Linda Bassett, Jimi Mistry
  6. In early-1970s England, a traditional Pakistani father (Om Puri) finds his brood--consisting of six sons and one daughter--spinning in decidedly non-traditional, independent-minded directions; his eldest son actually runs away from home rather than keeping to his fate of an arranged marriage.

  7. 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.

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