EAST IS EAST

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WHAT u people think about the movie east is east?

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heard of it but not watched yet...???

"..A liFE...A TraGEDy.??."

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I've seen it but wasn't very impressed.

It shows a 1970's pakistani type family which I have never seen in real life.

The father is married to an english woman - whilst still having a wife in pakistan. One of his sons is gay and another sleeps around a lot.

It's a weird film but you don't take my word for it!!!

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Sounds like
"lahore is lahore",,
I never saw it though,is that a new release.Available in block buster?

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I saw it. It's funny in parts but not very realistic. Definitely not a family movie BTW. it was written by a half English guy who was brought up by a white mother so I guess it reflects his reality.

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Its a movie, its a fiction but not reality. Enjoy it, laugh on it and then forget it .....

Nothing special.

I've seen it three times, first with my friends, then with my other friends and at last my wife ask me to take her to cenima to watch it. We both laughed .... because she is white & I am desi. But there is no east between me and my wife.

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I saw it twice and loved it…
I thought it was really funny..

But I do somehow think that you needed British humour to get the best out of the jokes..

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i havent seen it...but i saw a review about it on tv once...its supposed to be the producers story...more or less...
would love to see it though

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that movie was a blast man

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hahahahahahaha

very funny i really liked it

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saw it.. was a little funny.. but nothing special..

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i thought the movie was ok, but what was the deal with the guy pissing in that bucket sorta thing, and then bathing in it?

was he making the water warmer?

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Nomaan,

He pissed in another bucket ( used as a toilet ) and then bathed in another tub.

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East is west. West is East. Kipling was wrong. Beatles were right.

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i thought it was a rascist and bigoted film.

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[quote]
Originally posted by 2PaK:
i thought it was a rascist and bigoted film.
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I agree with you.

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Hi guys,

I just managed to watch it on the weekend.
My reaction? Mmmmm, basically it was taking the piss out of the typical stereotypes these white people have created for us.

All that comes out of the fathers mouth is bastard this and bastard that, ( though this is quite true in some cases) and the kids, well I dont know of any 18-20 year old lads or girls who go to the mosque, they stop going when they are about 13-14. And actually they were quite tame to what I have experienced of half caste kids. ( not generalising)

I think in some places it was quite a shallow film, and lacked alot of understanding about our culture, it was also very tacky.

At the end of the day i suppose it is just an attempt at making a comedy on the “pakis” expense, so dont dwell on it

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I saw the film twice and it seems it shows a fairly accurate portrayal of the desi culture in middle england at that time if not still.

The film was not bigoted as people have had that type of experiences, although the writer himself did not see any of it as he grew up in scandanavia (i think).

How can you say the truth is bigoted.

The movie showed the strain of the older generation trying to preserve their culture intact (even though the culture evolved in their respective countries since then) and their kids trying to fit in with the society they have to grow up, live in and adjust to.

Despite all the language the movie shows that the Father was deeply in love with his wife.

I would recommend that people watch it. and i also found that the people who complained saw it as a can of worms in their closet.

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Or it could be that the people who watched it and complained didnt see it as reality, because they were bought up very differently as portrayed in the film

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. They werent sworn at all the time by their father, their father could have been an extremely understanding person.

Of course maybe people who had been bought up this way would see it as true to life, but for others it can be very different.

Therefore they complained, because it reflects their culture in a bad light, not to mention it being ridiculed anyway by white society.

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[quote]
Originally posted by 2PaK:
i thought it was a rascist and bigoted film.
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That's exactly what i heard too.

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HAHAHAHAHA
That movie was probably one of the funniest movies i’ve ever seen.
Don’t take it too serious guys, it’s only a movie. Actually England was and at sometimes “is”, still like that in the movie. Sure they went a little overboard with some bad scenes, but face it, that’s what you get when you do cross marriage (don’t comment on that, it happened in the past).
Remember they just went over a little.. but just to make it more funnier

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