West Is West

Manchester, North of England, 1975. The now much diminished, but still dysfunctional, Khan family continues to struggle for survival. Sajid, the youngest Khan 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.

Cast

Aqib Khan

as Sajid Khan

Om Puri

as George Khan

Linda Bassett

as Ella Khan

Robert Pugh

as Mr. Jordan

Jimi Mistry

as Tariq Khan

Vanessa Hehir

as Esther

Lesley Nicol

as Auntie Annie

Zita Sattar

as

Ila Arun

as

Vijay Raaz

as

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