West is West Cast: Linda Bassett, Jimi Mistri, Emil Marwa, Ila Arun, Vijay Raaz, Om Puri, Lesley Nicoll; Director: Andy De Emmony; Music: Shankar, Ehsaan, Loy.
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West Is West is the coming of age story of both 13 year old Sajid and also of his father, 60 year old George (Ghengis?) Khan. Manchester, North of England, 1976. The now much diminished, but still claustrophobic and dysfunctional, Khan family continues to struggle for survival.
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West Is West is the coming of age story of both 13 year old Sajid and also of his father, 60 year old George (Ghengis?) Khan. Manchester, North of England, 1976. The now much diminished, but still claustrophobic and dysfunctional, Khan family continues to struggle for survival.
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- 6/6/2011
- by Bollywood
- GoBollywood
A big hearted and hilarious film well worth the wait… West Is West sequel to groundbreaking English film East Is East starring Om Puri is all set to hit Indian theatres come April 2011. Last Friday, February 25, it had a strong opening at the UK box office. West Is West that had a weekend box office of a little over 1.2 million Usd (Inr 5.5 cr) on 184 screens in with a per screen average of over 6600 Usd. The film beat releases like rom-com No Strings Attached, starring Ashton Kutcher and Natalie Portman and action movie Drive Angry starring Nicolas Cage. Worldwide sales agent for the Icon Film distribution chosen 52 Weeks Entertainment Inc for the India distribution "In East Is East, George was caught up in two cultures - Pakistani and British. Now in West Is West, he is caught up between two relationships," says Om Puri, the veteran actor who played George. "I really enjoyed playing these emotions.
- 3/8/2011
- by Bollywood Hungama News Network
- BollywoodHungama
The release of the long awaited sequel to 1999’s hit comedy/drama East is East should in theory hit all the right buttons; it has a strong cast, an interesting premise and the personal insight of screenwriter Ayub Khan-Din, who has based both films on his own experiences of the culture clash felt by many British-born Muslims, and also the degrees of variation from generation to generation.
Unfortunately, despite an obvious ensemble effort, the stand-out performer in East is East's sequel West is West (2011) is cinematographer Peter Robertson, for his depiction of Pakistan’s vibrant and beautiful landscape.
West is West picks up the Khan’s story a few years after their poignant family showdown, following the father and two of his sons as they travel to Pakistan. George ‘Genghis’ Khan (Om Puri) is troubled by youngest son Sajid’s reluctance to embrace his Pakistani heritage, and blindly believes...
Unfortunately, despite an obvious ensemble effort, the stand-out performer in East is East's sequel West is West (2011) is cinematographer Peter Robertson, for his depiction of Pakistan’s vibrant and beautiful landscape.
West is West picks up the Khan’s story a few years after their poignant family showdown, following the father and two of his sons as they travel to Pakistan. George ‘Genghis’ Khan (Om Puri) is troubled by youngest son Sajid’s reluctance to embrace his Pakistani heritage, and blindly believes...
- 3/5/2011
- by Daniel Green
- CineVue
We have added a new set of pictures from West Is West. The sequel to the multi award-winning, smash hit film .East Is East., West Is West reunites screenwriter Ayub Khan-Din with original cast members Om Puri, Linda Bassett, Jimi Mistry, Lesley Nicol and Emil Marwa, and introduces brilliant young acting talent Aqib Khan. To view the latest pictures visit our movie database.
- 12/22/2010
- by Michelle Wray
- Monsters and Critics
In 1999 the smash-hit East is East introduced us to the Khan family, and now, 11 years later they’re back, and this time its West is West.
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Manchester, England, 1976. The now much diminished, but still claustrophobic and dysfunctional, Khan family continues to struggle for survival. Sajid, the youngest Khan, the runt of the litter, 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 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 30 years earlier. It is not long before Ella Khan [Mrs Khan No 2], with a small entourage from Salford, England, swiftly follows to sort out the mess,...
We’ve managed to get our hands on the poster, so for an exclusive first- look, click here.
Manchester, England, 1976. The now much diminished, but still claustrophobic and dysfunctional, Khan family continues to struggle for survival. Sajid, the youngest Khan, the runt of the litter, 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 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 30 years earlier. It is not long before Ella Khan [Mrs Khan No 2], with a small entourage from Salford, England, swiftly follows to sort out the mess,...
- 12/15/2010
- by tegan.kniveton@lovefilm.com (Tegan Kniveton)
- LOVEFiLM
This belated sequel to East Is East provides chuckles but fails to get to grips with the troubles facing British Muslims and Pakistan
It's been more than a decade since the Ayub Khan-Din-scripted East Is East liberated British-Asian cinema from the furrowed-brow earnestness that had largely been its lot. It managed to combine an effervescent cheerfulness with simple but effective points about how ethnic identity changes across successive generations of immigrants. No doubt with one eye on current political debate, this belated sequel looks to develop the theme and provide context to the arguments about immigration.
The first film was set in 1971; this one takes place five years later. Almost all of the principal cast has reassembled: Om Puri is patriarch George Khan, baffled fury personified; Linda Bassett is his English second wife, Ella; Emil Marwa and Jimi Mistry are among his brood of Salford-raised sons (the latter, though,...
It's been more than a decade since the Ayub Khan-Din-scripted East Is East liberated British-Asian cinema from the furrowed-brow earnestness that had largely been its lot. It managed to combine an effervescent cheerfulness with simple but effective points about how ethnic identity changes across successive generations of immigrants. No doubt with one eye on current political debate, this belated sequel looks to develop the theme and provide context to the arguments about immigration.
The first film was set in 1971; this one takes place five years later. Almost all of the principal cast has reassembled: Om Puri is patriarch George Khan, baffled fury personified; Linda Bassett is his English second wife, Ella; Emil Marwa and Jimi Mistry are among his brood of Salford-raised sons (the latter, though,...
- 10/19/2010
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
The battle of the sexes just got bloody in the outrageously funny comedy-horror, "Doghouse", from award-winning director Jake West ("Evil Aliens") and starring Danny Dyer ("The Football Factory", "Severance") and BAFTA Award-winner Noel Clarke ("Adulthood", "Kidulthood"). "Doghouse" is released on Blu-ray and DVD on the 12 October, 2009, from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. The cast boasts a host of other British talent including Stephen Graham ("The Damned United", "This Is England"), Lee Ingleby ("Place Of Execution"), Emil Marwa ("East Is East"), Keith-Lee Castle ("Young Dracula"), Neil Maskell ("Rise Of The Footsoldier", "The Football Factory"), Christina Cole ("Lost In Austen"), Adele Silva ("Emmerdale"), Tree Carr ("Evil Aliens"), Emily Booth ("Zone Horror") and Billy Murray...
- 9/27/2009
- www.ohmygore.com/
An early front-runner for the Camera D'Or, "East Is East" (Directors Fortnight) is a wonderfully funny and moving directorial debut from Damien O'Donnell. Set in a London suburb in 1971, it stars the marvelous Om Puri and Linda Bassett as the Pakistani-Anglo parents of seven children, six of whom are sons. This Miramax release in the United States was greeted enthusiastically at its initial screening and should win hefty critical support on its way to finding a respectable audience.
O'Donnell garnered awards and many international festival screenings for his short "Thirty Five Aside" a few years back. In "East Is East" he shows fully developed skills in guiding the cast through many subtle and fairly intricate comic situations, parceling out the truly hilarious bits with a keenness that eludes many veterans. Added to this he finds just the right compositions with cinematographer Brian Tufano ("Trainspotting") to keep things interesting.
Based on the play by Ayub Khan-Din, who also wrote the adaptation, "East Is East" has a decidedly intense undercurrent of protracted familial conflict resulting from the siblings and English wife Ella (Bassett) of Pakistani immigrant George (Puri) who resent and finally resist his authoritarian rule over them, particularly his desire to live according to the customs of his native country and the Islamic religion.
A devote Muslim who has run a chip shop for decades with the help of Ella and the now mostly grown-up children, George Khan believes he knows what's best, including arranged, blind marriages for his sons. But in the first few minutes we see his oldest, Nazir (Ian Aspinall), bolt from the altar and "dishonor" the family so deeply he's not allowed to be contacted or talked about as a living person. Typifying the film's adept way of changing tones, his eventual return is a crowd-delighting surprise.
George is a gentle, thoughtful man, but he's blind to the wants and needs of his brood and amusingly tolerates Ella's occasional challenges to his ego. When he discovers that youngest son Sajid (Jordan Routledge) is uncircumcised, he wastes no time in putting the poor lad through an ordeal that gives older sister Meenah (Archie Panjabi) a chance to hilariously tease the victim, while Ella protests George's harsh attitude.
The older sons have more volatile conflicts for the family to endure but are also the source of many humorous subplots. Tariq (Jimi Mistry) is a budding ladies' man who has his first romance with the screechy Mod daughter, Stella (Emma Rydal), of a racist neighbor. Stella's juvenile- delinquent brother (Gary Damer), chubby friend Peggy (Ruth Jones) and Ella's sister Auntie Annie (Lesley Nicol) all have great comic scenes and lines as the other major English characters.
The most self-assured and secretive of the Khans, art student Saleem (Chris Bisson) sculpts a portion of Peggy's anatomy that is tossed around in the wild climax, which features the first meeting between the eligible but unbearably ugly daughters of another "Paki", whom George has chosen as wives for bitterly unaccepting Tariq and agreeably resigned Abdul (Raji James).
Although by the end he has his eyes opened and life for the Khans will never be the same, George grows angry and even violent, lashing out at loved ones as the family veers toward disaster. It's a credit to Puri and Bassett (who created her role in the original stage production) that as George hits his wife and beats up a religiously devout son (Emil Marwa), we understand the ties that bind them all together won't break despite the unpleasantness and uncertain future.
EAST IS EAST
Miramax Films
Assassin Films, FilmFour
Director:Damien O'Donnell
Screenwriter:Ayub Khan-Din
Producer:Leslee Udwin
Director of photography:Brian Tufano
Production designer:Tom Conroy
Editor:Michael Parker
Music:Deborah Mollison
Costume designer:Lorna Marie Mugan
Color/stereo
Cast:
George Khan:Om Puri
Ella:Linda Bassett
Tariq:Jimi Mistry
Abdul:Raji James
Sajid:Jordan Routledge
Auntie Annie:Lesley Nicol
Meenah:Archie Panjabi
Running time -- 116 minutes...
O'Donnell garnered awards and many international festival screenings for his short "Thirty Five Aside" a few years back. In "East Is East" he shows fully developed skills in guiding the cast through many subtle and fairly intricate comic situations, parceling out the truly hilarious bits with a keenness that eludes many veterans. Added to this he finds just the right compositions with cinematographer Brian Tufano ("Trainspotting") to keep things interesting.
Based on the play by Ayub Khan-Din, who also wrote the adaptation, "East Is East" has a decidedly intense undercurrent of protracted familial conflict resulting from the siblings and English wife Ella (Bassett) of Pakistani immigrant George (Puri) who resent and finally resist his authoritarian rule over them, particularly his desire to live according to the customs of his native country and the Islamic religion.
A devote Muslim who has run a chip shop for decades with the help of Ella and the now mostly grown-up children, George Khan believes he knows what's best, including arranged, blind marriages for his sons. But in the first few minutes we see his oldest, Nazir (Ian Aspinall), bolt from the altar and "dishonor" the family so deeply he's not allowed to be contacted or talked about as a living person. Typifying the film's adept way of changing tones, his eventual return is a crowd-delighting surprise.
George is a gentle, thoughtful man, but he's blind to the wants and needs of his brood and amusingly tolerates Ella's occasional challenges to his ego. When he discovers that youngest son Sajid (Jordan Routledge) is uncircumcised, he wastes no time in putting the poor lad through an ordeal that gives older sister Meenah (Archie Panjabi) a chance to hilariously tease the victim, while Ella protests George's harsh attitude.
The older sons have more volatile conflicts for the family to endure but are also the source of many humorous subplots. Tariq (Jimi Mistry) is a budding ladies' man who has his first romance with the screechy Mod daughter, Stella (Emma Rydal), of a racist neighbor. Stella's juvenile- delinquent brother (Gary Damer), chubby friend Peggy (Ruth Jones) and Ella's sister Auntie Annie (Lesley Nicol) all have great comic scenes and lines as the other major English characters.
The most self-assured and secretive of the Khans, art student Saleem (Chris Bisson) sculpts a portion of Peggy's anatomy that is tossed around in the wild climax, which features the first meeting between the eligible but unbearably ugly daughters of another "Paki", whom George has chosen as wives for bitterly unaccepting Tariq and agreeably resigned Abdul (Raji James).
Although by the end he has his eyes opened and life for the Khans will never be the same, George grows angry and even violent, lashing out at loved ones as the family veers toward disaster. It's a credit to Puri and Bassett (who created her role in the original stage production) that as George hits his wife and beats up a religiously devout son (Emil Marwa), we understand the ties that bind them all together won't break despite the unpleasantness and uncertain future.
EAST IS EAST
Miramax Films
Assassin Films, FilmFour
Director:Damien O'Donnell
Screenwriter:Ayub Khan-Din
Producer:Leslee Udwin
Director of photography:Brian Tufano
Production designer:Tom Conroy
Editor:Michael Parker
Music:Deborah Mollison
Costume designer:Lorna Marie Mugan
Color/stereo
Cast:
George Khan:Om Puri
Ella:Linda Bassett
Tariq:Jimi Mistry
Abdul:Raji James
Sajid:Jordan Routledge
Auntie Annie:Lesley Nicol
Meenah:Archie Panjabi
Running time -- 116 minutes...
- 5/17/1999
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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