Film review: East is East The film “East is East” is a British comedy-drama film written by Ayub Khan-Din‚ directed by Damien O’Donnell and released in 1999. The story is set in a British household with a pious Muslim father and an English mother in Salford in 1971. George Khan‚ the father‚ forces his family to follow the Pakistani lifestyle‚ but his seven children‚ who were born in Britain‚ see themselves as British and reject the traditions. This results in many tensions and conflicts
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East is East is a film about a Half-Pakistani family lives in England. The father‚ George/Jahangir Khan is from Pakistan and wants his children to feel connected to his home country. Ella Khan however is the mother of the family and is from England. Because of this there is a struggle for the seven children to find their identity. Mr. Khan expects his children to follow his strict Pakistani Muslim ways‚ but the children does not really feel like they belong to Pakistan. After having lived their whole
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The movie East is East takes place in Salford‚ Manchester in the early seventies. The family Kahn owns a fish and chips shop on the corner. The father George Kahn‚ tries to raise his 7 children as good Muslims. But the job is not easy when he has to please both his British wife Ella and the Pakistani community. When his oldest son rejects to get married and leaves the bride at the altar‚ Georges world seems to collapse‚ but then he gets an idea. He can marry off two of his other sons and get
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"When I came to this country‚ I had no luggage. Today what have I got?" His daughter replies. "You got a chip shop dad." And this is exactly how East Of East stereotypes its leading characters and then slowly twists them on their head. Its opening scene depicts a family of diversity and broken down stereotypes. A Christian parade is filing along the streets of Salford‚ Manchester and the Khan children join the throng of participants to the pride of their mother‚ but upon hearing their father is observing
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EAST IS EAST – MOVIE ANALYSIS Written by Charlotte Lisa Bateman‚ 12STA 23.03.13 The movie East is East is a drama-comedy film by Ayub Khan-Din‚ and is directed by Damien O´Donnel. The movie takes place in Salford‚ Manchester. The year was 1971‚ and it is about the family Khan. The main characters in the movie are George‚ who originally comes from Pakistan‚ his wife Ella who originally comes from Britain‚ and their 7 children‚ Nazir‚ Abdul‚ Tariq‚ Saleem‚ Maneer‚ Meenah and the youngest‚ Sajid
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East is East - Essay East is East’ is a play about family life set in Salford at the start of the 1970’s. It focuses on the Khan family‚ specifically the children‚ who are coming to terms with their identity in a mixed race household dominated by an abusive father. In this assignment‚ I will explore how the conflicts and tension in the play are dramatically revealed through the use of humor. I will explore Act 1‚ Scene 1‚ and Act 2 Scenes 2‚ 4‚ and 5. Throughout these scenes I will look at the separate
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A PLACE WHICH NEEDS ATTENTION: THE EAST The term Orientalism‚ was used by the West‚ to define the East. Orientalism is the perspective of the West‚ the way they see the East. The West here‚ is the Western Europe and the East is rest of it. Also Said divided Orientalism into two groups which are “latent and manifest Orientalism.” Nineteenth century scholars were mostly interested in Manifest Orientalism which is things we can observe about the Orient like language‚ literature‚ art‚ history. Most
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ENGLISH ESSAY OH EAST IS EAST Oh‚ East is East‚ and West is West‚ and never the twain shall meet. This is a part of Raudyard Kippling’s poem The Ballad of East and West. This poem is perfect to use as an explanation to why Brick Lane is so different. Brick Lane is dominated by people from the east‚ especially Hindis and Bangladeshis. The cultural differences between the East and West are major. They have different religion‚ food‚ language and even clothes. The West has more of a modern way of thinking
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East is East is a comedy written by ayub kahn-din‚ it’s set in Salford‚ Manchester‚ the play is set during the 1970s‚ however‚ it was written in 1996. The play addresses the on-going conflict around the country along with the conflict in the Khan family. He loosely based it off his own family when he was growing up and how his dad pushed the Pakistani culture onto his kids well he wasn’t always sticking to his own culture. The types of conflicts that are shown in the play are inter cultural‚ interpersonal
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East is East We’ve been looking at East is East; it’s a film about a Muslim family (although the mother is English) living in Manchester. The Khan family are an untypical of a Muslim family because Ella‚ the mother‚ I white and an atheist. George the father tries to arrange marriages for his three sons but they rebel against his strict Muslim upbringing preferring Ella’s non-religious way of life. George is the boss in their relationship; he makes all their decisions. He controls the family
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