Please note this is a region B Blu-Ray & will require a region B or region free blu-ray player in order to play East Is East George Khan proud Pakistani & chip shop owner 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 For the seven kids of George Khan life is one long compromise Tomboy Meenah prefers playing footie to wearing a sari hippie Saleem pretends to be studying engineering when he&s really at art school heart throb Tariq has got a reputation as a local Casanova & Sajid hasn&t even been circumcised yet! In the Khan&s cramped terrace house with its scant indoor plumbing anarchy erupts on a daily basis East is East is the hilarious story of what happens when two cultures collide within one family West Is West Manchester 1975 The now much diminished but still claustrophobic & dysfunctional Khan family continues to struggle for survival Sajid the youngest Khan the runt of the litter is deep in pubescent crisis under heavy assault both from his father&s tyrannical insistence on Pakistani tradition & from the fierce bullies in the schoolyard So in a last desperate attempt to &sort him out& his father decides to pack him off to Mrs Khan No 1 & family in the Punjab the wife & daughters he had abandoned 35 years earlier It is not long before Ella Khan (Mrs Khan No 2) with a small entourage from Salford England swiftly follows to sort out the mess past & present Actors Jimi Mistry Om Puri Linda Bassett Jordan Routledge Archie Panjabi Emil Marwa Chris Bisson Raji James Ian Aspinall Aqib Khan Robert Pugh Thomas Russell Vanessa Hehir John Branwell Yograj Singh & Vijay Raaz Director Damien O& Donnell & Andy De Emmony Year 1999 ; 2010 Languages English