Ayub Khan-Din, the maker of East Is East, has struck cinematic alchemy. He turns the pain of his upbringing into comic and dramatic gold.
In 1971, in working-class Salford, England, disintegration is the watchword of the day - a humiliated Pakistan is torn in half by civil war, and George Khan (Om Puri) brings about the slow-motion explosion of his own family. Having left India in 1936, Khan has taken an English wife (Ella, played by Linda Basset) and has produced six sons and a daughter.
His days are divided between the fish-and-chip shop which supports them all a....
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