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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 ...
- The Movie Takes A Few Liberties with Sarfraz Manzoor’s Life
- Springsteen Read Manzoor’s Book in Real Life
- Sarfraz Manzoor Has Found Success as A Writer & Broadcaster
The movie deviates from the real story in a couple key ways. According to Screen Rant, Javed was a name Manzoor’s mother gave him before his father switched it to Sarfraz. However, unlike the movie, Manzoor didn’t first discover Springsteen’s music with a hurricane raging outside, and he actually went to the Springsteen concert. In the movie, Javed...
The Hindu explainsthat Bruce Springsteen, in real life, read Manzoor’s book. Manzoor was writing for the Guardian but his contract was not renewed, so he focused on turning his memoir into a screenplay and then sent it to Springsteen, asking to use the songs. Springsteen gave the go ahead, showed up at the premiere, and once even handed Manzoor his...
According to the Guardian, Sarfraz Manzoor has lived out his fictional version’s dreams of becoming a journalist. “Sarfraz Manzoor is a journalist, author, documentary maker and broadcaster,” his Guardian author page explains. His BBC biography reports, “Sarfraz Manzoor has presented many documentaries for Radio 4 as well as contributing to program...
Aug 15, 2019 · That is the true story of Blinded By The Light, a film based on Sarfraz Manzoor's autobiographical novel, Greetings From Bury Park.In it, Manzoor describes growing up and struggling to find his ...
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Aug 7, 2019 · Now, more than 30 years later, he is getting ready to see his story play out on the big screen. Based on his 2007 book Greetings From Bury Park, Blinded By The Light tells how Manzoor, now a ...
Mar 12, 2020 · Blinded by the Light: The True Story is at Leicester Square Theatre, London WC2 (020 7734 2222), March 19-21. It is a story that begins with a boy who had dreams he feared would never come true. The dream was to get out of Luton and become a writer, and the boy was me. I was a working-class British Pakistani teenager growing up in Eighties Luton.
Aug 17, 2019 · The man is a prophet.”. Like Springsteen’s recent one-man Broadway show based on his autobiography, “Blinded by the Light” is all about the shared DNA between parents and their children ...
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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.
