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Full Record for Film No. 96


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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