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West Is West

West Is West

Same family. Different country. A lot more baggage.

Part of East Is East Collection

2010•1h 43m•6.4/10
Comedy

Ratings

🎬TMDb
6.4/10(43)

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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Production

BBC Film, Assassin Films, Icon Productions

Language

EN

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Aqib Khan

Sajid Khan

Om Puri

Om Puri

George Khan

Linda Bassett

Linda Bassett

Ella Khan

Robert Pugh

Robert Pugh

Mr. Jordan

Jimi Mistry

Jimi Mistry

Tariq Khan

Vanessa Hehir

Vanessa Hehir

Esther

Lesley Nicol

Lesley Nicol

Auntie Annie

Zita Sattar

Ila Arun

Ila Arun

Vijay Raaz

Vijay Raaz

Emil Marwa

Emil Marwa

Nadim Sawalha

Nadim Sawalha

Thomas Russell

Hughsy (Bully)

Enid Dunn

Eunice

Sujata Kumar

Sujata Kumar

Mrs. Haqq

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