The first time I went to Ireland, I was surprised to hear more country music from America than Irish ballads. The Green Grass of Home is almost a national anthem. That is at least easier to explain than the lure of C & W for the heroes of Wild West, who are three young Pakistani men from the West London district of Southall.
Forming a band named the Honky Tonk Cowboys, they look for gigs in London pubs, and scandalize their Asian relatives and neighbors.
The movie is written and filmed in a freewheeling, anarchic style; the characters careen through London like refugees from an MTV video, at one point even stealing a police car, chopping off its top, and using it as the base for an instant concert tour. The fact that this is probably impossible doesn t bother them, so perhaps it shouldn t bother us, either.