East Is East

• 6.532 Drama
• 1999-05-14
• 97 minutes mins

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.

Starring:

Om Puri (George Khan) Linda Bassett (Ella Khan) Ian Aspinall (Nazir Khan) Jimi Mistry (Tariq Khan) Archie Panjabi (Meenah Khan) Jordan Routledge (Sajid Khan) Chris Bisson (Saleem Khan) Lesley Nicol (Auntie Annie) Emil Marwa (Maneer Khan) Raji James (Abdul Khan)

Director:

Damien O'Donnell

Writer:

Ayub Khan-Din