Directed by:
Damien O'DonnellScreenplay:
Ayub Khan-DinCinematography:
Brian TufanoComposer:
Deborah MollisonCast:
Om Puri, Linda Bassett, Gary Lewis, Archie Panjabi, Jimi Mistry, Lesley Nicol, Emil Marwa, Ruth Jones, Emma Rydal, Ben Keaton, Preeya Kalidas, Rosalind March (more)Plots(1)
Salford, 1971 and Pakistani chip shop owner George Khan (Om Puri) lives with his white wife Ella (Linda Bassett) and their seven children. George wants to raise his children as devout Muslims, but things go wrong when his eldest son Nazir (Ian Aspinall) flees his arranged marriage midway through the ceremony. Undeterred, George plans a marriage for his son Tariq (Jimi Mistry), but when Tariq discovers what is happening he rebels against his father, and the future of the family is plunged into doubt. (4DVD)
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A harmony of two different cultures is not a bed of roses. The Brits, the Pakistani, the Muslims, the Indians… They all meet in this story to beautifully showcase the kind of trouble that can arise when the benevolent Europe meets with the strict rules of the East. Maybe that’s also the reason behind the movie title. In any case, it was shot by an Irishman, so it made me laugh from the bottom of my heart a few times, but I also sighed at all the eastwards things that I find illogical. It was a pleasant, but occasionally also sad clash of two (or more) completely different cultures.
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