East Meets WestA film review - "East is East"

East is East, a directorial debut from Damien O'Donnell, is a comedy of cultural collision. Situated in Manchester during the early 1970s, the film is a bittersweet portrayal of a mixed-race family attempting to overcome both cultural and generational conflicts.
Om Puri (a respected Indian actor last seen as the father in "My Son the Fanatic") is George khan, a Pakistani immigrant, who is unable to reconcile his internal conflicts. He is torn between the customs of his native land and the modernized West; between the idea of a father being a dominant figure on one hand and a modern British fa...