![]() Even as a Clevelander, I was pulled into the exuberant, gritty music of New Jersey’s rock and roll poet and felt much of my own experience in his tales of escaping the confines of the Jersey Shore. ![]() So like Javed, when I first heard the music of Bruce Springsteen, I was swept up in a kind of rapture of emotion. As far back as I can remember, I have felt the weight of being from the poor, working classes. When he was 32, my father suffered a heart attack working at a steel mill and went to work while suffering from it for a week as he was afraid of losing his job, doing irreparable damage to his heart. Like the film’s protagonist, Javed ( Viveik Kalra), I come from a distinctly working class background that left me excluded from much of the culture around me. ![]() To be sure, I am probably the target demographic of Gurinder Chadha’s 2019 film Blinded By the Light.
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