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  1. Aug 20, 2019 · Updated Aug 20, 2019 at 4:44pm. Getty Sarfraz Manzoor with Bruce Springsteen, Springsteen's wife, and the actor who plays him. In Blinded By the Light, a Pakistani teenager named Javed finds his ...

  2. Box office. $19.6 million [ 2][ 3] Blinded by the Light (also known as Music of My Life) is a 2019 comedy-drama film directed by Gurinder Chadha. It was inspired by the life of journalist Sarfraz Manzoor and his love of the works of Bruce Springsteen. [ 4][ 5][ 6] Manzoor co-wrote the script [ 7] with Chadha and Paul Mayeda Berges.

  3. Gurinder Chadha's latest coming-of-age movie, Blinded by the Light, is about a British Pakistani teenager called Javed who falls in love with the music of Bruce Springsteen - and it's based on a true story! The real Javed is journalist Sarfraz Manzoor, and Blinded by the Light is based on his book Greetings From Bury Park (a spin on Springsteen ...

  4. Aug 15, 2019 · Blinded By The Light filmed in Manzoor's actual hometown of Luton, England. The production spared no detail, even using the actual papers and poems Manzoor wrote to decorate Javed's room and ...

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  5. In 1987 Britain, Javed Khan is a British-Pakistani college arts student in Luton in a family with a domineering father. Depressed by his oppressive family life and feeling he has no future in a hostile community, a newfound friend introduces Javed to the music of Bruce Springsteen. Touched by the rock star's powerfully eloquent affinity of his ...

  6. Blinded by the Light. TRAILER. List. Javed is a Pakistani teenager who experiences racial and economic turmoil while living in Luton, England, in 1987. He writes poetry as a way to escape the ...

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    • Comedy, Drama, Music
    • PG-13
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  8. Blinded by the Light: Directed by Gurinder Chadha. With Billy Barratt, Ronak Singh Chadha Berges, Viveik Kalra, Lee Barnett. In England in 1987, a teenager from an Asian family learns to live his life, understand his family and find his own voice through the music of American rock star Bruce Springsteen.

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