does anyone know the american release date on this film??? or where a site where i can find out?
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Dunno about the american release date on the film but it's a must see.
Shows a pakistani family of seven living in UK in the seventies. Many stereotypes are suggested and truly shown in a pretty bad light however they are rather hard to refute.
I seen this at the Toronto film festival this year - had the honor of meeting Om Puri (sarcasm) at the premiere. I didn’t like it so much (although it had its moments). It definitely did harbour alot of stereotypes. Its one of those movies in this new emerging genre, where Indians portray the Pakistani diaspora, playing on our ‘extremes’, rather than portraying the ‘moderates’ which are in the majority. So you have the extremely confused ‘ABCD’ like children and their ‘Islamically’ inclined father and they obviously clash.
Its worth seeing though, it has some laughs, but its nothing I (as a Foreign born Pakistani) could relate to, nor could any of my friends. You’d have to be a pork-eating, beer guzzling, homosexual or at least sexually devient ‘ABCD’, who likes to call your father a Paki to relate to this film.
The audience finds certain scenes amusing - like when the children rebel and eat pork, and when they decide to drink alcohol, or when they call their dad a ‘Paki’ - these instances show their ‘freedom’ from the oppressive shackles of Pakistani-Islamic culture.
Kashmirigirl…you can find some reviews of this film (I think) at http://www.imdb.com , do a search for East is East.
The release date is March 30, 2000 in the US.
Achtung
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thanks guys...
Achtung i tried idmb....but didn't get a release date. thanks :)
Kashmirigirl try this:
http://us.imdb.com/ReleaseDates?0166175
I don’t think it has dates for particular cities, just overall dates for a number of countries.
Achtung
Here you go Shirin.....
Thanks, Muzna.
I just went to see it and enjoyed it hugely.
Looking at it as entertainment, you can appreciate its lighter moments.
Rememeber the film is set in a Manchester suburb in 1970. So some things which were true then are no longer so. And obviously some things are exaggerated in order to make a point. Let's give them some artistic license.
Some things which i found very realistic and still quite true of our culture (and I don't mean just pakistani or muslim, I mean the whole sub-continent):
- Fathers who don't talk or communicate with their children
- Inability to say no when even a totally ridiculous demand is made by another respected person in the community.
- Isolationism and yes, cultural fossilization - here it touches the father and leaves out the children, but many times it could include them
I enjoyed the film but didn't identify with very much of it. I'd recommend it any day!
I watched it over the weekend, and I thought it was an excellent movie. Om Puri delivers a powerful performance. T’was a story of a family struggling for cohesion and affiliation and dealing with cross-cultural conflicts. It wasn’t about Desis as many here seem to think. It seemed that the seriousness of the topic was many times downplayed to signify a comedic element, which I thought was not such a good thing. Overall, it was very good.
You'd have to be a pork-eating, beer guzzling, homosexual or at least sexually devient 'ABCD', who likes to call your father a Paki to relate to this film.<<<<
or you could be a 5-time nimaz praying shithead who looks towards externalities as enemies within. What has porkeating or beer drinking or one’s sexual orientation has to do with how one relates to one’s parents (or to a movie)? Only dull-witted minds will make you believe that.
EAST IS EAST..
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This has to be one of my favourite films…one I went to watch 3 times ( hey call me sad but I liked it )
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I think it’s exxagerated and all but it’s so hilarious…
I also think you need british humour to understand and enjoy this film..to the max.
I thought it was fab…
Each little joke was done to perfection and was so true…the acting by OM PURI was fab..and the children and the wife was too.
I rated it 12/10 and I’d go and see it again.
but I’ll be buying the video and that’s for sure.
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MS