East Is East (film)

East Is East (film)

East Is East is a 1999 British comedy drama film, written by Ayub Khan-Din and directed by Damien O'Donnell. It is set in a British household of mixed-ethnicity, with a Pakistani father and an English mother in Salford, Lancashire, in 1971. George Khan (played by Om Puri), the father, expects his family to follow Pakistani ways, but his children, who were born and grew up in Britain, increasingly see themselves as British and reject Pakistani customs of dress, food, religion, and living in general, leading to a rise in tensions and conflicts in the whole family.

East Is East is based on the play of the same name by Ayub Khan-Din, which opened at the Royal Court Theatre in 1997.