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Release Date:
October 19, 2010
Original Title:
West Is West
Genres:
Comedy
Production Companies:
Assassin Films
BBC Film
Production Countries:
United Kingdom
Ratings / Certifications:
CA: 14A DE: 6 GB: 15 IE: 15
Runtime: 103
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.
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Art Direction:
Shital Kanvinde
Pradip Redij
Katy Tuxford
Casting:
Anji Carroll
Costume Design:
Sandeep Kumar
Louise Stjernsward
Director:
Andy de Emmony
Director of Photography:
Peter Robertson
Editor:
Jon Gregory
Executive Producer:
Jane Wright
Shaana Levy
Kim Rømer
Hairstylist:
Luize Joyce Margaret
Makeup Artist:
Penny Smith
Felicity Wright
Original Music Composer:
Rob Lane
Playback Singer:
Sain Zahoor
Producer:
Leslee Udwin
Production Design:
Tom Conroy
Aradhana Seth
Writer:
Ayub Khan-Din
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