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title: "East Is East [Blu-ray]"
brand: "channel 4"
price: "€ 31.43"
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# East Is East [Blu-ray]

**Brand:** channel 4
**Price:** € 31.43
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- **What is this?** East Is East [Blu-ray] by channel 4
- **How much does it cost?** € 31.43 with free shipping
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## Description

Salford, 1971 and Pakistani chip shop owner George Khan (Om Puri) lives with his white wife Ella (Linda Bassett) and their seven children. George wants to raise his children as devout Muslims, but things go wrong when his eldest son Nazir (Ian Aspinall) flees his arranged marriage midway through the ceremony. Undeterred, George plans a marriage for his son Tariq (Jimi Mistry), but when Tariq discovers what is happening he rebels against his father, and the future of the family is plunged into doubt.

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## Customer Reviews

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    Hilarious Dysfunction at it's Best
  

*by A***T on Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2009*

East is East is about a family with split religious beliefs.  While the father desires to be the best Muslim father that he can be, despite the fact that he's married a non-Muslim woman of non-Eastern origin, almost all of his several children want only to fit in as residents of a basically all-catholic London suburb.  In order to try to keep some semblance of peace, the children do everything they can to balance the conflict while the mother tries to be a sort of referee in the situation.  The only drawback to the movie is that you might have to watch it several times to understand the dialog because of the father's heavy English and Eastern accent.  The great thing is that the more times you watch this movie the more you get out of it.  It's brilliantly funny and I've watched it several times and sent it to friends and family members as gifts and loaned my copy out and never had a bad review of it yet.

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    I must warn you however some parts of the film are pretty raunchy and I would watch it first before allowing ...
  

*by P***. on Reviewed in the United States on March 4, 2015*

I saw this movie on TV and had to have it. I am from London area and lived there during the time period that this film was made. It brought back so many memories and the movie itself is hilarious. I must warn you however some parts of the film are pretty raunchy and I would watch it first before allowing younger children to see it. If you like British humor then this movie is for you. I haven't laughed this much since John Cleese made Clockwise!

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    A reasonably accurate caricature of South Asian culture
  

*by F***D on Reviewed in the United States on June 16, 2005*

I have watched this movie several times, and each time I have been amused, and chagrined over how accurate the portrayal is of South Asians in Britain during the 60s. You have to understand that post-WW II britain had induced thousands of unskilled workers for their industry. These people were not educated, and many of them married locals. These locals were NOT middle class, or even lower middle class -- in socialist Britain, back in the 50s and 60s, there was still abject poverty. So what you see in the movie is accurate from both sides, South Asian, and the British.George Khan is unable to reconcile the hopes and aspiration of his children with his upbringing -- even highly educated parents of today aren't able to bridge that gap, regardless of cultures. How often does an Italian marry a jewish person, or a white marries a black? By the way, I am punjabi, and I grew up in Pakistan, and I personally know families in Britain that are EXACTLY like George Khan's family.Islam or its teachings has nothing to do with the portrayal of this family. The movie succeeds well in demonstrating George Khan's hypocrisy regarding his religion, his patriotism, his family ethics, even in choosing his wife; in one scene, he speaks lowly of all local white women, and when his son confronts him on why he married one, he ends the conversation by threatening to choke him if he continues with this line of reasoning. This is the story of one person's weaknesses in the context of different cultures. That's all. It's interesting to look inwardly for some people who are upset at this movie. I understand that embarrasment -- it's a good beginning. These people should watch this movie over and over again. It is cathartic not just for me as a punjabi Pakistani, but also as a person.Om Puri who plays George is a fine actor in the tradition of actors like Lawrence Olivier and Anthony Hopkins. He really is a very fine character actor. He has acted in many Indian movies and some english. I will say this again, the family life portrayed in this movie for that period, given the pop culture movements of the 60s, and given the social class portrayed, this is a very accurate movie. I have this movie in my shelves and I watch it from time to time, and I recommend it to my friends, family, and new acquaintances. A hallmark of all great movies, like literature, is that they encourage debate. And this one does in its small way.

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