The Pakistani scenes were shot first.
The film is very autobiographical. Writer Ayub Khan-Din was also shipped off to Pakistan as an unruly child from Salford in England (where East Is East (1999) was set) to try and straighten him out.
Zita Sattar, who plays Neelam, actually played the family's daughter Meena in the original stage production. The character of Meena does not appear in the film.
The space hopper featured in the first film that gets popped when run over is seen in the opening scene
The film takes place in 1976.
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