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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).
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Summaries. In early 1970s England, a Pakistani father finds the authority he has previously maintained challenged by his increasingly Anglicized children. In 1971 Salford, fish-and-chip shop owner George Khan expects his family to follow his strict Pakistani Muslim ways.
Damien O'Donnell. Michael Parker. Joan McCann. Toby Whale. Alan J. Wands. Shellie Smith. Leslee Udwin. Deborah Mollison. Ayub Khan-Din. In 1971 Salford fish-and-chip shop owner George Khan expects his family to follow his strict Pakistani Muslim ways.
East Is East (1999) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Apr 21, 2000 · East Is East. George Khan is like that performer on the old Ed Sullivan show, who tried to keep plates spinning simultaneously on top of a dozen poles. He runs from one crisis to another, desperately trying to defend his Muslim world view in a world that has other views.
East Is East. 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 Salford in the North of England, in 1971.
