![]() Javed feels constrained by the expectations of his father, who has just been laid off from his 16-year job at the Vauxhall automobile factory. ![]() In the film, Manzoor has been transformed into Javed, a quietly ambitious bookworm who yearns to escape his lifeless home for the big city. The story draws loosely from screenwriter Sarfraz Manzoor’s 2007 memoir Greetings From Bury Park, which depicted Manzoor’s transformative discovery of Springsteen’s music as a 16-year-old Pakistani Muslim living in the London suburb of Luton in late-’80s Thatcherite Britain. Blinded by the Light should probably have been called Badlands, because it embodies the song’s key lyric: “It ain’t no sin to be glad you’re alive.” The film, which was adapted by screenwriter and director Gurinder Chadha ( Bend It Like Beckham), gleefully and unironically feels like living inside a Springsteen song, complete with angry fathers, dead-end towns, young love-hell, there’s even a dying factory.
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