West Is West

West Is West

6.4IMDb Score
Released:2010-10-19
Genre:Comedy
Duration:103 min
Director:Andy De Emmony
Actors:Aqib Khan, Om Puri, Linda Bassett, Robert Pugh, Jimi Mistry
Production:BBC Film, Assassin Films, Icon Productions

Overview:

Salford, North of England, 1976. The now much diminished, but still dysfunctional, Khan family continues to struggle for survival. Sajid, the youngest Khan is deep in pubescent crisis under heavy assault both from his father's tyrannical insistence on Pakistani tradition, and from the fierce bullies in the schoolyard. So, in a last, desperate attempt to 'sort him out', his father decides to pack him off to Mrs Khan No 1 and family in the Punjab, the wife and daughters he had abandoned 35 years earlier.

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