![]() One day, fellow student Goops (a delightful Aaron Phagura) slips Javed a couple of Springsteen cassettes, thus beginning his instant fandom. Despite wanting Javed to pursue a more practical profession, he longs for a career as a writer. The family patriarch, Malik (Kulvinder Ghir) maintains strict control over his long-suffering wife and children. Viveik Kalra plays Javed, a young student whose Pakistan born parents moved to small town 1987 England to provide a better life for their children. While it goes a little overboard in the fan service department, its Thatcher Era immigration tale provides for a touching, breezy experience. The world may have moved on from his type of music, but with Blinded By The Light, Gurinder Chadha, who gave us the delightful Bend It Like Beckham, has delivered a crowd-pleasing film about the love of writing. His music, which I called a "dive bar wall of sound", had an epic, cinematic quality to it while still retaining a classic meat and potatoes style. He wrote about ordinary people who had shallow pockets but deep souls. I'd rip open the shrink wrap on every new vinyl record he made and pore over the lyrics even before listening to the songs. I was really into Bruce Springsteen in the 80s. The Blinded by the Light Song starts with “Blinded by the light Revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night Blinded by the light”.WHO'S THE BOSS? - My Review of BLINDED BY THE LIGHT (3 Stars) The Blinded by the Light Song is Covered by Bruce Springsteen which makes everyone go crazy
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