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East Is East
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East Is East

May 14, 1999
1h 37m
★ 6.5

A comedy of families, a chip shop... and a very randy dog.

Overview

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.

Genres

Drama
Comedy

Production Companies

Assassin Films
Film4 Productions
BBC

Cast

Om Puri

George Khan

Om Puri

Linda Bassett

Ella Khan

Linda Bassett

Ian Aspinall

Nazir Khan

Ian Aspinall

Jimi Mistry

Tariq Khan

Jimi Mistry

Archie Panjabi

Meenah Khan

Archie Panjabi

Jordan Routledge

Sajid Khan

Jordan Routledge

Chris Bisson

Saleem Khan

Chris Bisson

Lesley Nicol

Auntie Annie

Lesley Nicol

Emil Marwa

Maneer Khan

Emil Marwa

Raji James

Abdul Khan

Raji James

Emma Rydal

Stella Moorhouse

Emma Rydal

Ruth Jones

Peggy

Ruth Jones

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