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New Century of Cinema
DOWSE Guide to the
Movies
by Tony Lee editor of
Pigasus
Press
East Is East
92 minutes (15) FilmFour/VCI
Director: Damien O'Donnell
review by Gary Couzens
In 1971 Salford, George Khan (Om Puri) runs a fish-and-chip shop with his white wife
Ella (Linda Bassett) and their seven children. George is determined to raise his
children as traditional Muslims, but they rebel, starting with the eldest son who
flees an arranged marriage in the middle of the ceremony. Based on his own stage play,
writer Ayub Khan-Din is sympathetic to almost all his characters: even the inflexible
patriarch George has his reasons. The screenplay does lapse in its treatment of two
unattractive girls, intended wives for two of George's sons, who are treated as
cartoonish grotesques in an unnecessarily mean-spirited way. But on the whole, this
is an engaging comedy, if a little predictable and determinedly feelgood. The early
seventies setting (at one point the family sit down to watch The Clangers on
TV) will fill many thirtysomethings with nostalgia.
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