East Is East
East Is East

East Is East

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

6.5(217 votes)
1999
1h 37m
Drama
Comedy

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.

Production

Assassin Films, Film4 Productions, BBC

Cast

Om Puri

Om Puri

George Khan

Linda Bassett

Linda Bassett

Ella Khan

Ian Aspinall

Ian Aspinall

Nazir Khan

Jimi Mistry

Jimi Mistry

Tariq Khan

Archie Panjabi

Archie Panjabi

Meenah Khan

Jordan Routledge

Jordan Routledge

Sajid Khan

Chris Bisson

Chris Bisson

Saleem Khan

Lesley Nicol

Lesley Nicol

Auntie Annie

Emil Marwa

Emil Marwa

Maneer Khan

Raji James

Raji James

Abdul Khan

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