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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
01
Why this pick
Like East Is East, it finds warmth and sharp comedy in a British South Asian family negotiating tradition, generational pressure and self-determination, while keeping the emotional stakes buoyant and affectionate.
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Why this pick
A prickly, energetic portrait of Pakistani-British life, class and family obligation, with the same willingness to let comedy, tenderness and conflict coexist without easy answers.
03
Why this pick
It similarly uses an interracial relationship and close-knit immigrant family to generate awkward, character-based comedy, while treating parental expectations and personal independence with real feeling.
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Why this pick
Set in 1980s Britain, it shares East Is East’s affectionate but clear-eyed view of a Pakistani-British teenager pushing against a strict father and finding a voice of his own.
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Why this pick
Mira Nair brings warmth, humour and emotional complexity to an immigrant family caught between inherited values and their children’s choices, with an equally vivid sense of community.
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01 / THE STORY
George Khan is a British Pakistani Muslim who has lived in Britain since 1937. He has a wife in Pakistan. He and his second wife Ella, a White British Roman Catholic woman of Irish Briton descent, have been married for twenty-five years and have seven children together; Nazir, Abdul, Tariq, Maneer, Saleem, Meenah and Sajid. George and Ella run a popular fish and chips shop in the neighborhood.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
George Khan
Ella Khan
Tariq Khan
Meenah Khan
Saleem Khan
Abdul Khan
Nazir Khan
Peggy
