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Sunday, May 12 at the Montclair Film Festival. “Blinded by the Light” will be screened 6:30 p.m. “Blinded by the Light,” directed by Gurinder Chadha (“Bend It Like Beckham”), is based on the “Greetings from Bury Park” memoir by Sarfraz Manzoor. It’s like merging a Springsteen concert with a John Hughes film. It’ll put a big smile on your face as it takes on serious subjects like father issues, race, economic hardship and assimilation in a quirky, joyous way. “Blinded by the Light” is a treat and more. The trailer, shared on Bruce Springsteen's social media, teases the music sequences, which Boss fans are going to love. More: Bruce Springsteen announces new solo album 'Western Stars, his first in five years More: Bruce Springsteen's new song 'Hello Sunshine' is a gorgeous return “Bruce sings about not letting the hardness of the world stop you from letting the best of you slip away,” Javed says. “You think that this man sings for people like us?” says the father of Javed (Viveik Kalra), a South Asian Muslim teenager growing up in ‘80s England. theaters and internationally around the same time, perhaps a little sooner in the U.K., from New Line Cinema/Warner Bros. Distribution: Viveik Kalra, Kulvinder Ghir, Meera Ganatra, Aaron Phagura, Dean-Charles Chapman, Nikita Mehta, Nell Williams. The first trailer for upcoming Bruce Springsteen-inspired film “Blinded by the Light” promises fun, inspiration and a culture clash in the coming-of-age charmer, due Aug. 'Blinded by the Light' tells a story of a teenager who hears Bruce Springsteen for the first time and is given the ability to overcome many.
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We have to wait until AUGUST for it to come out, so why not use that time constructively and make a compilation cassette for whoever you fancy.No, it's not Billy Joel - it's Bruce Springsteen.
#BLINDED BY THE LIGHT TRAILER MOVIE#
The movie stars Viveik Kalra as Javed, Hayley Attwell as Javed’s teacher Ms Clay, Aaron Phagura as Roops, and Nell Williams as Eliza.
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This is a gorgeously bouncy and joyous trailer though it doesn’t shy away from bullying and racism, at school and on the streets.īlinded By The Light is directed by Gurinder Chadha ( Bend it Like Beckham, Viceroy’s House) and written by Sarfraz Manzoor, Gurinder Chadha, and Paul Mayeda Berges – the story is based on Manzoor’s memoir, Greetings From Bury Park. 'Blinded By the Light.'Colorlines screenshot of 'Blinded By the Light' trailer, taken AugWhen I first heard about the film Blinded By The Light, which pays homage to Bruce Springsteen through the experiences of a Pakistani teenager in Great Britain, I was beside myself with excitement. Until his friend Roops introduces him to Bruce Springsteen, who speaks to everything Javed is feeling – even if everyone else dismisses the Boss’s music as “Springsteen. He lives in Luton and is struggling to reconcile his Pakistani-British identity at home with his conservative immigrant parents, and his dreams of being a writer. Not that we really used the word dork then. In Blinded By The Light it’s 1987 and Mrs Thatcher is in power, while record players and Walkmans hum with Wham! and Bananarama (when it comes to the 80s, if you never tried to wind a cassette back on using a pencil you weren’t really there.) (Possibly the latter helped cause the former.) The 80s were a crazy decade – awesome music, terrible politics.