East Is East poster
Screenplay Ayub Khan-Din
Director Damien O'Donnell

East Is East

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

Release Date: 1999-05-14

Duration: 97 minutes

Synopsis

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.

Casting

  • Archie Panjabi
    Meenah Khan
  • Gary Lewis
    Mark
  • Om Puri
    George Khan
  • Linda Bassett
    Ella Khan
  • Lesley Nicol
    Auntie Annie
  • Albert Moses
    Abdul Karim
  • Jimi Mistry
    Tariq Khan
  • Ruth Jones
    Peggy
  • Rosalind March
    Helen Karim
  • Madhav Sharma
    Mr Shah