East Is East

1999

Action / Comedy / Drama

11
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 78% · 32 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 78% · 10K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.9/10 10 19786 19.8K

70s daughter jealousy muslim northern england hippie

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Plot summary

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.

Director

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Damien O'Donnell

Top cast

Muzz Khan Photo
Muzz Khan as Kid
Rosalind March Photo
Rosalind March as Helen Karim
Ian Aspinall Photo
Ian Aspinall as Nazir Khan
Archie Panjabi Photo
Archie Panjabi as Meenah Khan
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839.8 MB
1280*714
English 2.0
TV-PG
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 36 min
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1.5 GB
1920*1072
English 2.0
TV-PG
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 36 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by CinemaSerf 7 / 10

It’s early 1970s Britain and “George” (Om Puri)

It’s early 1970s Britain and “George” (Om Puri) has been running his chip shop in Salford for many years since leaving his home (and wife) in Pakistan. Not long after he arrived after the war, he met and married “Ella” (Linda Bassett) and they’ve had half a dozen children, many of whom are now starting to become eligible for the marriage game. Though he has integrated, up to a point, he is determined to ensure that the traditions of his homeland and his faith are continued with his children. They, on the other hand, are British through and through and over the course of the next ninety minutes we see just how, in various fashions, they begin to rebel against their father’s increasingly puritanical and occasionally violent behaviour towards them and their mother. All against the background of Enoch Powell espousing his “rivers of blood” philosophy, things in this tightly knit family come to an head when the parents of prospective wives/daughters-in-law arrive for a family conference and the wheels all start to come off. It’s a very dark comedy this, and it captures the clashes of cultures and sexes entertainingly as well as quite potently at times. The actors playing the siblings deliver competently enough, but it’s the young snorkel-jacket wearing “Sajid” (Jordan Routledge) who steals the scenes as his youthfulness gives his character (and us) an unique observation point from which to watch his family turn from two adults with children into one all adults and just two children. It takes a swipe at arranged marriages, pride, snobbery and bloody-mindedness but it also pays respect to the older man’s traditions and illustrates with a degree of sympathy just how difficult he found it to adapt to the profound changes that were emerging around him and about which he had a frustrating lack of control. It’s not exactly laugh out loud funny, but it’s still an enjoyable and pithily scripted and delivered film that has more than a ring of truth to it.
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Reviewed by daveisit 7 / 10

He Loved His Parker

"East is East" tried to cover too many issues and genres in the one film. In the end I don't think the script was strong enough to tie all this together, and the film suffered because of it. Having said that I believe it was a strong performance from a talented cast.

In it's favour there were some hilarious scenes throughout the movie, and an insight into the Pakistani families and communities in England. Not the typical English stereotypes usually portrayed by Hollywood, nor the typical London lifestyle so often seen in movies today, which was a refreshing change.

Oh Yeah, this confirmed how dangerous and damaging religion has the potential to be. Definitely worth a look.

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