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2010

West Is West

Directed by Andy de Emmony
Same family. Different country. A lot more baggage.

Manchester, North of England, 1975. 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.

Duration

1h 43m

Released

October 19, 2010

Revenue

$3,867,000

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6.4

Rating42

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Cast14

  • Aqib Khan
  • Om Puri
  • Linda Bassett
  • Robert Pugh
  • Jimi Mistry
  • Vanessa Hehir
  • Lesley Nicol
  • Zita Sattar
  • Ila Arun

Part ofThe East Is East Collection

Includes East Is East (1999), and West Is West (2010).

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