Movie: West Is West

Top 10 Billed Cast

Aqib Khan
Aqib Khan

Sajid Khan

Om Puri
Om Puri

George Khan

Linda Bassett
Linda Bassett

Ella Khan

Robert Pugh
Robert Pugh

Mr. Jordan

Jimi Mistry
Jimi Mistry

Tariq Khan

Vanessa Hehir
Vanessa Hehir

Esther

Lesley Nicol
Lesley Nicol

Auntie Annie

Zita Sattar
Zita Sattar

Ila Arun
Ila Arun

Vijay Raaz
Vijay Raaz

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    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.

  • Release Date

    2010-10-19

  • Average

    6.4

  • Rating:

    3.2 starts
  • Tagline

    Same family. Different country. A lot more baggage.

  • Genres

  • Languages:

    ਪੰਜਾਬੀEnglish
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