Title: | East is East | |
Director 1: | Damien O'Donnell | |
Country: | UK | |
Year: | 1999 | |
length: | 96 mins | |
Colour/b-w: | colour | |
Genre: | feature film | |
Screenwriter: | Ayub Khan-Din | |
Cinematographer: | Brian Tufano | |
Editor: | Michael Parker | |
Producer: | Leslee Udwin, Alan J. Wands | |
Production company: | Assassin Films/BBC/Channel 4 Films | |
Cast: | Om Puri, Linda Bassett, Jordan Routledge | |
Location: | TABB | |
TABB No.: | 64 | |
Synopsis: | Salford, England 1970: Fish-and-chip shop owner George Khan tries to raise his seven children according to Pakistani Muslim tradition and values. His children, with a white mother and having been born and brought up in Britain, rebel against their father by subverting his rules on dress, food, religion and mixed-race friendships. This success film is based on the stage play of the same title, written by Ayub Khan-Din. | |
Keyword 1: | dysfunctional family | |
Keyword 2: | Pakistani | |
Keyword 3: | tradition | |
Keyword 4: | father-son relationship | |
Keyword 5: | generation | |
Keyword 6: | mixed-race relationship | |
Keyword 7: | religion | |
Keyword 8: | Asian | |
Keyword 9: | white | |
Keyword 10: | mother-son relationship | |
Keyword 11: | family | |
Keyword 12: | homosexuality | |
Keyword 13: | violence | |
Keyword 14: | literature | |
Keyword 15: | adaptation | |
Keyword 16: | youth | |
Text Reference 1: | East is Best | |
Text Reference 2: | Hybride Kulturen: Die postkoloniale Identitätsdebatte im 'Black British Film' | |
Text Reference 3: | Bidding for the Mainstream? Black and Asian British Film since the 1990s | |
Text Reference 4: | Money, Macpherson and Mind-Set: The Competing Cultural and Commercial Demands on Black and Asian British Films in the 1990s | |
Text Reference 5: | Is "East" ... East? | |
Text Reference 6: | East is East | |
Text Reference 7: | East Goes West: British Asian Themed Film, East is East, Smashes Box Office | |
Text Reference 8: | East is East |
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