West is West Movie Reviews

The film is essentially a sequel to East is East, the film that focused on the travails of a Pakistani-British family trying to cope with the cultural divide. But West is West stands on its own, even though it carries forward the story of the man who struggles between his twin identities: George Khan, the Pakistani-Brit who runs a modest eatery and Jehangir Khan, the Pakistani farmer, with family, property and roots in rural Pakistan

Jehangir Khan (Om Puri), that foul-tongued chippy owner, has not changed a bit since the viewers with an interest in Brit-Subcontinent victims of cultural clashes were first introduced to him in East is East. Christened George, Jehangir is still at odds with the upbringing of his various kids and he still doesn't have a kind word for them, not even for the youngest; the back-talking Sajid (Aqib Khan). At a certain point, Jehangir craves so much

Om Puri returns as George Khan, the domineering father who's still trying to control the complicated lives of his rebellious kids in 'West is West', the sequel to that charming comedy 'East is East', about cultural clashes within a British-Asian family in 1970s Salford. The new film is set five years on, in 1976, and opens with a sympathetic look at Sajid (Aqib Khan), George's teenage son and the youngest in the brood who's still living at home

West is West, directed by Andy DeEmmony, is a fun, light-hearted comedy about self-discovery and coming of age. The film, a sequel to the 1999 film East is East, focuses on the same dysfunctional Khan family from Salford, England, except it is now much diminished. Set five years on from East is East, West is West takes off from Salford where Sajid (Aqib Khan), the youngest Khan, now a teenager, is going through a major crisis both at home

Screenwriter/Playwright Ayub Khan Din's second chapter of his popular creation East is East has the Anglo-Pakistani Chip shop owning Khan family of Salford, England move to a remote village in Pakistan in search of culture clash drama. But the resultant doesn't have the freshness or the bite required to keep the audience continuously engaged through its unwieldy runtime. Eleven years too late, this sequel, set five years after the epoch making prequel

West is West is the sequel to the hugely successful 1999 film East is East, about a Pakistani man, George played by Om Puri, who runs a chip shop in Salford in the early 70s. George’s second wife, Ella played by Linda Bassett, is English and he spends much of his time grappling with the complicated identity politics of his seven children. In West is West, George travels back home to Pakistan with his youngest son, Sajid played by Aquib Khan

A popular pir (learned man) at a pind (village) in the Pakistan side of Punjab makes a point about tradition. It's like taking the same road everyday, he says. But one day, if you find a snake sitting on that same road, would you not change your path? As for immigrants and how their new worlds influence them, that's natural, inevitable, bound to happen, the pir suggests. You can't be fighting it. Old man Jehangir (Om Puri), who calls himself George in England

West Is West Review Business rating: 2/5 stars. What’s Good: The drama; the performances; the excellent backgrou...