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all that is true in this [crappy]
world,” Roops says — Javed real-
izes that the singer’s outlook on
life could help him shape his
own.
Chadha herself became a fan of
Springsteen while working her
Saturday job in the record de-
partment of Harrods, where “this
English guy with long hair and a
beard” approached her to recom-
mend she listen to “Born to Run.”
She latched on to the sound
immediately, mesmerized by how
Clarence Clemons’s “spiritual
and all-encompassing” saxo-
phone paired with Springsteen’s
“gravelly lyrics.” A live perform-
ance at Wembley Stadium in 1985
cemented her fandom. So when
she happened upon a newspaper
article Manzoor had written
about Springsteen, she knew she
had to get in touch.
“I said, ‘You and me, we’re the
only Asians in Britain who like
Springsteen,’ ” she exclaims.
They stayed in touch long
enough for Manzoor to feel com-
fortable handing Chadha a rough
copy of his 2007 memoir, “Greet-
ings from Bury Park,” to see
whether she would want to adapt
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it into a film. The title, a tweaked
version of Springsteen’s debut
album, swaps out Asbury Park for
the Luton neighborhood with a
large Muslim population, Manzo-
or’s family among them.
In the film’s Bury Park, Javed
experiences malicious othering
via racist slurs and graffiti left
around his neighborhood. Chad-
ha says she has often shied away
from depicting the “visceral rac-
ism” that she, Manzoor and other
people of color faced in the 1980s
because she doesn’t want nega-
tivity to define their stories. But
she felt compelled to incorporate
the trauma into this project after
witnessing what unfolded after
the Brexit referendum in 2016.
“All of a sudden, there were
these xenophobes that sort of
came out of nowhere,” she recalls,
arms outspread. “That’s when I
picked up the script and I did a
couple passes with all my anger
and frustration about what I was
seeing around me, with Brexit.
And that’s why the film, even
though it’s set in 1987, feels so
relevant to today.”
When placing such a story
within an immigrant family
where the parents and children
don’t always see eye to eye on
how to respond, Chadha says,
“suddenly, you’ve got this tre-
mendous drama and conflict to
mine.” Javed finds a sanctuary in
poetry and essay writing, for
instance, but clashes with his
father (Kulvinder Ghir), who los-es his job at a factory and de-
mands that his son pursue a more
stable career. Javed understands
this reasoning but, at the same
time, laments the unfairness of it
all. Springsteen validates his
frustration.
To avoid turning “Blinded by
the Light” into a traditional juke-
box musical, Chadha knew she
had to find a cinematic way to
weave in the music. The script —
for which she, Manzoor and her
husband, Paul Mayeda Berges,are credited — lists Springsteen
as a character’s name, his lyrics as
dialogue. The singer, who had
read Manzoor’s memoir and was
at least familiar with “Bend It
Like Beckham,” Chadha says, had
given the team “carte blanche to
use anything” from his discogra-
phy. She didn’t want to exploit
that kindness.
On the day she shot a fight
between Javed and his father,
Chadha decided she would sub-
stitute the actors’ audio with“Darkness on the Edge of Town,”
a 1978 song about a sort of
internalized dissatisfaction per-
sisting throughout American cul-
ture. As the camera zooms in on
Javed’s face, his father a few steps
behind him, we hear what he
hears — not his father lecturing
him, but Springsteen’s words:
“Everybody’s got a secret, Sonny,
something that they just can’t
face.”
“I couldn’t risk the audience
not feeling what I want them tofeel — the connection between a
Pakistani kid in Luton and Bruce,
in the context that he wrote those
words in the ’70s and early ’80s,
and how this kid is taking those
words for meaning in his life,”
Chadha says. “Words were criti-
cal, and I had to make sure ... I
didn’t just leave the song playing
in the background.”
Springsteen’s lyrics are about
unsung heroes who yearn for
something better than what
they’ve been dealt, a form of
conflict Chadha approaches with
a level of optimism that almost
feels bold in this oft-cynical era of
entertainment. She works to find
common ground, most promi-
nently between Javed, who pur-
sues his writing career behind his
parents’ back, and his father, who
eventually comes around.
“Somehow, through the words
and music of Bruce Springsteen,
his philosophies and the idea of
the story — this Pakistani kid
discovering what life’s about —
become this collective hug for us
right now,” she says, a smile on
her face. “Yeah, times are hard,
and the struggle is always going
to be there. But if we stand
together, and if we empathize
with each other ... that’s the way
forward.”
At a time when there seems to
be a collective depression going
on, she continues, “I hope the
movie does sort of feel like a
Bruce song, by the end.”
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bridges gap
ANGELA WEISS/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES
Guitarist Patti Scialfa, left, Bruce Springsteen and “Blinded by the Light” director Gurinder Chadha at
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