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Without Springsteen’s largesse, the film would have been forced to be tighter, and the result likely would have induced less of a sugar coma. There’s more than a few of these moments, including an elaborate dance through the streets of Luton set to “Born to Run” (I wish I were kidding). It’s equal parts charming and cringeworthy, even for a Springsteen fan who regularly embraces the hokey and the sincere.
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Javed puts on his headphones, presses play on “Thunder Road,” and serenades Eliza publicly, which introduces one of the film’s two Bollywood-inspired musical numbers, complete with dancing townspeople, air guitar, and an actual rose being thrown in the rain.
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There’s a lovely scene where Javed sees his crush, Eliza (Nell Williams), handing out fliers up the road. Turns out you can have too much of a good thing: There is so much Springsteen music in the film that it occasionally threatens to suffocate the story. The result is an unprecedented 12 Springsteen songs featured in Blinded by the Light. Chadha (who is also a Springsteen fan) and Manzoor appealed to Springsteen to use his music in the movie, and the Boss provided both script approval and his blessing on the final cut. (Any of this sounding familiar, Bruce fans?)īut the film falters around its stated goal: “We want the whole world to understand the music and the words of Bruce Springsteen,” said Chadha at the afterparty of the film’s Asbury Park premiere on July 7th. 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.
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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, wrapped up like a deuce Another runner in the night.Blinded by the light, wrapped up like a deuce Another runner in the night.The caliope crashed to the ground and she wasCalliope? crashed to the ground and she wasBlinded by the light, wrapped up like a deuce Another runner in the night.Blinded by the light, wrapped up like a deuce Another runner in the night.Blinded by the light, wrapped up like a deuce Another runner in the night.Blinded by the light, wrapped up like a deuce Another runner in the night.With a boulder on my shoulder, feelin' kinda older, I tripped the merry-go-round with this very unpleasing Sneezing and wheezing, the caliope crashed to the ground.The caliope crashed to the ground and she wasBlinded by the light, wrapped up like a deuce Another runner in the night.Blinded by the light, wrapped up like a deuce Another runner in the night.Blinded by the light, wrapped up like a deuce Another runner in the night.Blinded by the light, wrapped up like a deuce Another runner in the night.Blinded by the light, wrapped up like a deuce Another runner in the night.Blinded by the light, wrapped up like a deuce Another runner in the night.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.