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Year: 2010
UK: Icon Film Distribution
Cast: Om Puri, Linda Bassett, Jimi Mistry, Vijay Raaz, Ila
Arun, Aqib Khan, Robert Pugh, Thomas Russell, Vanessa Hehir, John
Branwell, Yograj Singh, Karamjit Anmol, Sanjeev Attari, Raj Bhansali,
Dhanalaxmi Padmakumar, Sheeba Chaddha
Director: Andy DeEmmony
Country: UK
UK: 103 mins
UK Certificate: 15 contains strong language
UK Release Date: 25 February 2011
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Synopsis
From the makers of EAST IS EAST.
Manchester, North of England, 1976. The now much diminished, but
still claustrophobically cohesive and desperately 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
traditions, and from the fierce racist bullies in the schoolyard.
Isolated and bored, he resorts to bunking off school and shoplifting
useless items to spice up his dull and lonely little life.
In a last attempt to make a good son of him, his father decides to
pack him off to family in the Punjab. But although resolved to teach
Sajid a lesson, the tables are turned on George when he comes face
to face with his own transgressions, and realizes that it is he
himself who has much to learn.
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