• StatusReleased
  • Release Date1999-05-14
  • Runtime97 minutes
  • TaglineA comedy of families, a chip shop... and a very randy dog.
  • Revenue28,200,000$
  • GenreDrama, Comedy
  • Production
    CompaniesAssassin Films, Film4 Productions, BBC
  • Budget3,800,000$

Movie Overview

In 1971 Salford fish-and-chip shop owner George Khan expects his family to follow his strict Pakistani Muslim ways. But his children, with an English mother and having been born and brought up in Britain, increasingly see themselves as British and start to reject their father's rules on dress, food, religion, and living in general.

Casts

Om Puri

Linda Bassett

Jimi Mistry

Archie Panjabi

Lesley Nicol

Emil Marwa

Raji James

Ruth Jones

John Bardon

Kriss Dosanjh

Gary Lewis

Roger Morlidge

Albert Moses

Rosalind March

Madhav Sharma

Saikat Ahamed

Thierry Harcourt

Leena Dhingra