West Is West (2010)

West Is West: Directed by Andy De Emmony. With Aqib Khan, Om Puri, Linda Bassett, Robert Pugh. An immigrant father decides to take his truant son back to the old country.

“In 1999, u0026quot;East Is Eastu0026quot; was a pleasurable and incisive look at the clash of different cultures in an Anglo-Pakistani family in a Salford set in 1971. Over a decade later comes a sequel of sorts, this film located mainly in the Punjab part of Pakistan a few years on. Although the director is different (Andy DeEmmony this time), the writer is the same (Ayub Khan-Din) as are some of the lead actors, notably Om Puri (actually from the Indian part of the Punjab), again outstanding as the patriarch struggling to give his youngest son an appreciation of his Pakistani culture, and Linda Bassett as his long-suffering English wife.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIt is an uneven work, with some of the characters merely caricatures and some of the humour simply slapstick, but there are plenty of moving scenes – above all one between the English and Pakistani wives when neither can understand the otheru0026#39;s language but both manage to convey deep understanding – and the locations and soundtrack are excellent.”