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Synopsis: Salford, North of England, 1975. 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, 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. It is not long before Ella Khan (Mrs Khan No2) with a small entourage from Salford, England, swiftly follows to sort out the mess, past and present.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director(s): Andy De Emmony
Production: D Films
 
IMDB:
6.5
Rotten Tomatoes:
68%
Year:
2010
103 min
$1,458,734
Website
324 Views


he knows you're here.

F*** off.

Just make sure you're not down there

of a night-time by yourself.

- Why?

- Djinns can possess you.

- You see anybody, just look at his feet.

- Why?

'Cause a djinns feet

will be on backwards.

Night-night!

- What are you doing now?

- Checking for elephant balls.

Oi! Come. Eat breakfast.

It's paratha. Good for you. Eat.

She made tea too sweet for her.

She always bloody doing it.

Everything okay? Home? Everybody happy?

Probably are, now my dad isn't there.

Hey, you be no cheeky, huh?

I hear what you up to in England.

I go be keeping very close eye on you.

I not take bloody any trouble from you.

F*** off, you fat twat.

Hey! Come here!

I'll tell your father

about this, man!

Why you wearing that?

- 'Cause I want to.

- Well, take it off.

You said it were for Pakistan.

I no bloody mean now.

It's too hot wearing this thing.

Where are the Pakistani clothes

I gave you?

I'm not wearing them.

Why not? You looking smart like us?

I've already told you

what you look like.

- Go put on.

- No.

- Go, baster, put on!

- No.

I warn you, mister...

Go.

All this, mine.

Here, all the way back to village.

Uh, except that bit there on the right.

- Is mine from my father.

- Not much, eh?

- All family work together, see?

- Yes, this is all for family.

All the time I send money.

Buy more land. All for family.

And I working all land.

All for family.

For future, you see.

Oh...

- Popular, isn't he?

- So was Hitler.

Grundig C 6000 Automatic.

Automatic VHF fine-tuning.

...compact tape recorder.

Automatic recording.

Short wave, medium wave, long wave.

- All waves.

- Always.

See? They're having a party.

Here.

Sajid? Come here.

Master-ji Eyaz.

Say, "Salam alaikum."

- Salam alaikum.

- Wa alaikum as-salam.

And this is Pir Naseem.

We've met.

Ah, yes, yes! We have met!

We have been waiting for your

father's return for a long time.

Your mummy, Basheera,

and your sisters are very happy.

She's not me mam.

- Like mum though, isn't it?

- It's not.

Is in Pakistan.

Me mam's me mam, Pakistan or Salford.

- Sajid.

- I have a brother in England.

He works in the mill, in Ramsbottom.

Do you know Ramsbottom?

Ramsbottom?

Is there such a place, Sajid?

I don't know.

And if there were, would you

freely admit to coming from it?

Your father wishes to entrust me with

your spiritual and academic education

- here in Pakistan.

- You what?

You're going to bloody school, isn't it?

You said it was a holiday!

- Baster, don't you start that with me.

- You can't make me.

I didn't want to come

to this f***ing dump in the first place!

I in charge here.

Your mum not here now.

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Ayub Khan-Din

Ayub Khan Din (born 1961) is a British Pakistani actor who played Sammy in Hanif Kureishi's film Sammy and Rosie Get Laid in (1987) and wrote the BAFTA, BIFA and London Film Critics Circle award-winning film East Is East, based on the original 1996 play that was nominated for an Olivier Award in 1998. In 2008 his comedy play Rafta, Rafta... won the Olivier Award that year. He also wrote the film sequel West Is West released in 2010. He also created the television series Ackley Bridge, which debuted in 2017. more…

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