"East is East is a BAFTA award-winning British comedy film released in 1999.
It is set in a mixed-race household with a Pakistani father and a British mother in Salford, in 1971. George Khan (played by Om Puri), the father, expects his family to follow his strict Muslim ways, but his children, who were born and raised in Britain, increasingly see themselves as British and reject their father's rules on dress, food, religion, and living in general.
East is East is based on the play of the same name by Ayub Khan-Din".
The father (George Khan) is DESPERATE to be seen by his Pakistani friends as following the traditions HE was bought up with - however, his wife is English and the children were born in the UK and can't relate to their father's rules AT ALL.
It is a humourous film, but also has a dark side when George beats up his wife because she sides with the children. The sons protect her and George is ashamed.
Anyway - it IS a very good film and describes how this 'honour' thing can get nasty. It's 'family honour in the face of friends' rather than the religious side.
"East is East is a BAFTA award-winning British comedy film released in 1999.
It is set in a mixed-race household with a Pakistani father and a British mother in Salford, in 1971. George Khan (played by Om Puri), the father, expects his family to follow his strict Muslim ways, but his children, who were born and raised in Britain, increasingly see themselves as British and reject their father's rules on dress, food, religion, and living in general.
East is East is based on the play of the same name by Ayub Khan-Din".
The father (George Khan) is DESPERATE to be seen by his Pakistani friends as following the traditions HE was bought up with - however, his wife is English and the children were born in the UK and can't relate to their father's rules AT ALL.
It is a humourous film, but also has a dark side when George beats up his wife because she sides with the children. The sons protect her and George is ashamed.
Anyway - it IS a very good film and describes how this 'honour' thing can get nasty. It's 'family honour in the face of friends' rather than the religious side.