East Is East
"When I came to this country, I had no luggage. Today what have I got?" His daughter replies. "You got a chip shop dad." And this is exactly how East Of East stereotypes its leading characters and then slowly twists them on their head. Its opening scene depicts a family of diversity and broken down stereotypes. A Christian parade is filing along the streets of Salford, Manchester and the Khan children join the throng of participants to the pride of their mother, but upon hearing their father is observing from further down the street, the children race through the back alley's, only to rejoin the parade once it has passed their unsuspecting father. The Khan children's "great escape" is an apt opening to East Is East, as we understand the Khan children to be of a biracial and interfaith marriage.
East Of East is set during 1971 in the Manchester area of Salford, and George Kahn (Om Puri), a Pakistani immigrant is trying to instil traditional Pakistani values in his seven children,......
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