History Film / BlindedByTheLight

* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Malik is not a villain by any means, but he does have a rather narrow worldview as shown by his frequent comments about Jewish people. (Even these are positive, but stereotypical)

** Malik's wife, Noor also does this to him near the end after Malik banishes Javed from returning home from his USA trip, reminding him that he too left Pakistan and his family at a young age and how his actions are pushing Javed away and might lose him if they don't reconcile.

* CallingTheOldManOut: When Javed [[spoiler: wins the contest to get to visit Monmouth University in New Jersey]] Malik forbids him from going, as well as forbidding him from even thinking about going to Manchester to study. Javed calls him out, [[ParentalHypocrisy saying that Malik, too, left his home, Pakistan, at a young age.]]

* CallingTheOldManOut: When Javed [[spoiler: wins the contest to get to visit Monmouth University in New Jersey]] Malik forbids him from going, as well as forbidding him from even thinking about going to Manchester to study. Javed calls him out, saying that Malik, too, left his home, Pakistan, at a young age.

* MySisterIsOffLimits: Averted. Javed sees Shazia dancing familiarly with a boy at the club and, frowning asks how long they’ve been together, with Shazia hesitantly saying they’ve been in a SecretRelationship fifteen months, at which point her brother breaks into a smile and congratulated her for being able to hide it from the family for so long. Then, he Shifts the conversation to talking about the sense of liberation music brings them.

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* MySisterIsOffLimits: Averted. Javed sees Shazia dancing familiarly with a boy at the club and, frowning asks how long they’ve been together, with Shazia hesitantly saying they’ve been in a SecretRelationship fifteen months, at which point her brother breaks into a smile and congratulated her for being able to hide it from the family for so long, the. Shifts he conversation to talking about the sense of liberation music brings them.

[[UsefulNotes/HomeCounties Luton]], [[TheEighties 1987]]. Javed Khan (Creator/ViveikKalra), a son of Pakistani immigrants, wants three key things out of life: 1. To get out of Luton. 2. To undertake writing as a profession. 3. To find a girl. Unfortunately, the circumstances of his family and the culture of the time make all three of these things difficult, and things are not helped when his father, Malik (Creator/KulvinderGhir), is laid off from the automotive plant in town.

Things change, from the way he looks at his own life and his relationship with his father, when a new friend at school gives him two tapes by Music/BruceSpringsteen, and Javed finds that the lyrics perfectly describe his situation in life. The film also stars Meera Ganatra, Creator/NellWilliams, Creator/AaronPhagura, and Creator/DeanCharlesChapman and was released on August 9, 2019 by [[Creator/{{EntertainmentOne}} eOne Films]].

[[UsefulNotes/HomeCounties Luton]], [[TheEighties 1987]]. Javed Khan, a son of Pakistani immigrants, wants three key things out of life: 1. To get out of Luton. 2. To undertake writing as a profession. 3. To find a girl. Unfortunately, the circumstances of his family and the culture of the time make all three of these things difficult, and things are not helped when his father, Malik, is laid off from the automotive plant in town.

Things change, from the way he looks at his own life and his relationship with his father, when a new friend at school gives him two tapes by Music/BruceSpringsteen, and Javed finds that the lyrics perfectly describe his situation in life.

[[UsefulNotes/HomeCounties Luton]], 1987. Javed Khan, a son of Pakistani immigrants, wants three key things out of life: 1. To get out of Luton. 2. To undertake writing as a profession. 3. To find a girl. Unfortunately, the circumstances of his family and the culture of the time make all three of these things difficult, and things are not helped when his father, Malik, is laid off from the automotive plant in town.

The year is 1987. Javed Khan is a son of Pakistani immigrants living in [[UsefulNotes/HomeCounties Luton]]. Most of all, Javed wants three things out of life: 1. To get out of Luton. 2. To undertake writing as a profession. 3. To find a girl. Unfortunately, the circumstances of his family and the culture of the time make all three of these things difficult, and things are not helped when his father, Malik, is laid off from the automotive plant in town.

* ValuesResonance: InUniverse. The main focus of plot is how the lyrics of some of Bruce Springsteen's songs meant to describe the feeling of middle class New Jersey in the late 1970s/early 1980s resonate to a Pakistani boy living in Britain nearly a decade after they came out.

* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Malik is not a villain by any means, but he does have a rather narrow worldview as shown by his frequent comments about Jewish people.

* NotSoDifferent: Twice in relation to Javed:
** With his father Malik. Both had dreams of leaving home and making something of themselves elsewhere, with a FantasyForbiddingParent. [[spoiler:Malik also ends up with an appreciation for Springsteen, like his son]]
** With Matt. Despite their differences in taste, both found a connection to their music that very few people understand, and both of them clash with their father over it.

* IDoNotlikeGreenEggsAndHam: Malik is completely dismissive of Bruce Springsteen and his music, considering it a bad influence that is distracting Javed from pursuing a noble profession. [[spoiler:But then when he actually listens to Springsteen's songs, he finds himself appreciating the themes of family and working hard for a better life. He reconciles with Javed soon afterwards (while joking that Springsteen has to be a fellow Pakistani given the lyrical content) and the film ends with them listening to "Born to Run" as they drive to Manchester.]]
* {{Irony}}: Several characters mock Javed's love of Springsteen, claiming that he's a has-been his music is for old people while praising musicians such as Tiffany and Debbie Gibson, who were all very much fad musicians that never had the lasting impact Springsteen has had.