West Is West is a 2011 British comedy-drama film, which is a sequel to the 1999 comedy East Is East. It stars Aqib Khan, Om Puri, Linda Bassett, Ila Arun and Jimi Mistry, is written byAyub Khan-Din, directed by Andy DeEmmony, and produced by Leslee Udwin for Assassin Films and BBC Films.
The film premiered 12 September 2010 at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival and had a limited UK premiere at the BFI London Film Festival on 19 October 2010. It will be on general UK release in February 2011 and at the UK premiere Ayub Khan-Din confirmed that a third film about the British Pakistani Salford, Greater Manchester family is being planned. The U.S. premiere was on 7 March 2011 at the Miami International Film Festival.
The story is set in 1976, five years after the story in East Is East. Father George Khan is worried that his youngest son, Sajid, now 15, is turning his back on his Pakistani heritage, so he decides to take him for a visit to Pakistan. While the movie is set in Pakistan, it was in fact filmed in India.
Both films are based on the writer's own life as a young man in Salford in the 1970s, with Sajid being his alter ego; the script was loosely based on a draft of a screenplay about his life in Pakistan as a 13-year-old.
Story:
Manchester, North of England, 1975. The now much diminished, but still claustrophobic and dysfunctional, Khan family continues to struggle for survival. Sajid, the youngest Khan, the runt of the litter, 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. It is not long before Ella Khan (Mrs Khan No2) with a small entourage from Salford, England, swiftly follows to sort out the mess, past and present.
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