East Is East

East is East, a fast-moving comedy drama of mixed-race manners, is set in Salford, England in 1970. It centers on the Anglo-Pakistani alliance of the Khan family that is both claustrophobically cohesive and hopelessly dysfunctional. In their over-crowded terrace house, anarchy erupts daily with ...more

A perceptive, sometimes broad examination of the family structure and its unsteady nature, East is East succeeds in its truthful, occasionally piercing dissection of its themes and in its refusal to take the easy route in presenting some difficult situations. Om Puri is one of Britain's most underappreciated talents, and here gives a robust, finely etched portrayal of a most hypocritical and sometimes brittle man without succumbing to stereotype or the grotesque. Well-adapted by Ayub Khan-Din ...more