| 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 | |
pr