West is West with Om Puri to debut in Canada

FILMI Toronto’s South Film Festival is proud to announce that it has entered into a community screening partnership with D Films Corporation on its eagerly anticipated release of WEST IS WEST, the sequel to the international hit East is East. WEST IS WEST will open across Canada in all major cities on March 25, 2011.
 

‘WEST IS WEST’, which has already become a box office hit in the UK by securing the highest screen average in the UK during it’s opening weekend when it opened in 184 locations across the country. 

Director Andy De Emmony captures the spirit of young and old and the convergence of east and west in this film about a fascinating and much loved dysfunctional family. Reuniting most of the original cast, including the inimitable OM PURI who reprises his role as the dominating patriarch Zahir "George" Khan, and produced by the same creative team – the sequel takes the Khan family on a journey from Salford, north of England to rural Pakistan. From the same writer, Ayub Khan-Din, a British-Pakistani actor and playwright, the loosely autobiographical story begins four years after the first film.
 

Om Puri is one of India’s most distinguished actors and a veteran of well over 100 films. He has been seen by international audiences in East Is East; Richard Attenborough’s Gandhi; My Son The Fanatic; Peter Cattaneo’s The Parole Officer; City Of Joy (opposite Patrick Swayze); Wolf (alongside Jack Nicholson), The Ghost And The Darkness (opposite Val Kilmer) and Charlie Wilson’s War (starring Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts).
 

In 1999, FILMI Toronto’s South Film Festival was launched with the Canadian premiere of the international hit East is East, starring Om Puri and Jimi Mistry. Since its inception as a film festival at the Harbourfront Centre over a decade ago, Filmi has built a strong presence in the community, thanks to its exceptional line-up of films and its ever-growing number of supporters. Each year, Filmi, with the support of its many generous sponsors, continues to showcase a diverse slate of South Asian films from Canada and around the world. Now, twelve years after presenting the Canadian premiere of East is East, Filmi is very pleased to be a community screening partner for the release of the highly awaited sequel to East is East – WEST IS WEST – and to add D Films Corporation as a supporter of the Toronto South Asian Film.