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Ayub Khan-Din's East Film Analysis

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Ayub Khan-Din’s East is East is a comedy-drama film directed by Damien O’Donnell. This film tells the story of the family Khan living in Salford in Manchester which happens to be the setting of the movie. This movie features George, the head of his family and whose origin is Pakistan, his wife who comes from Britain, and their seven children: Sajid, Meena, Maneer, Saleem, Tariq, Abdul, and Nazir. George runs a fish and chip shop and gets assistance from Ella in running the errands. In one of the very first scenes of the film, Nazir who is George’s eldest son stands at the wedding venue with his bride and are getting ready to ties the knot. Khan-Din succeeds in showing the extent of his lack of comfort at the prospects of getting married and it does not come as a surprise the moment he shows rejection to marriage. The manner in which he leaves the bride at the wedding venues evokes the feeling of sympathy in the audience as the bride is left stranded in utter shock, disbelief and evidently emotionally hurt.

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It is a film that focuses on a very pertinent topic of the conflict between culture and region on one hand and modernity on the other. It as well highlights important messages on identity, marriages, and life choices. This movie is also spiced up with some humor particularly from Sajid, the youngest, who seems not to have awareness of most of things he opens his mouth to speak. Great instances are when the children are eating bacon before their dad George gets home, and when Abdul and Tariq sneak and make their way to a nightclub at the wee hours of the night. Some of the scene, however, comes out emotional an apt incident being when George behaves with much aggression towards Ella. The moments when the sons also come to the realization that their father has arranged marriages sends mixed feeling such as of hate towards the father and empathy towards the

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