West Is West

“Same family. Different country. A lot more baggage.”

Salford, North of England, 1976. 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.

Director

Andy De Emmony

Screenplay

Ayub Khan-Din

Music

Rob Lane

Status

Released

Release date

19/10/2010

Original language

English

Budget

US$ 4 M

Box office

US$ 4 M