West Is West

Oct 19, 2010

1h 43m

★ 6.4

Same family. Different country. A lot more baggage.

Overview

Salford, North of England, 1976. The now much diminished, but still dysfunctional, Khan family continues to struggle for survival. Sajid, the youngest Khan is deep in pubescent crisis under heavy assault both from his father's tyrannical insistence on Pakistani tradition, and 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 and family in the Punjab, the wife and daughters he had abandoned 35 years earlier.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

BBC Film

Assassin Films

Icon Productions

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Cast

Sajid Khan

Aqib Khan

George Khan

Om Puri

Ella Khan

Linda Bassett

Mr. Jordan

Robert Pugh

Tariq Khan

Jimi Mistry

Esther

Vanessa Hehir

Auntie Annie

Lesley Nicol

Zita Sattar

Ila Arun

Vijay Raaz

Emil Marwa

Nadim Sawalha

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