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    BLINDED BY THE LIGHT

    Oct 06, 2019 3 minutes
    IAN FREER

    OUT 24 OCTOBER

    CERT PG / 117 MINS

    DIRECTOR Gurinder Chadha

    CAST Kulvinder Ghir, Viveik Kalra, Hayley Atwell, Rob Brydon

    Sensitive poetry-writing teen Javed (Viveik Kalra) faces racism in the streets and strictness in the home from his disciplinarian father (Kulvinder Ghir). Yet his life is transformed when he is introduced by new buddy Roops (Aaron Phagura) to the music of Bruce Springsteen. Soon after, a world of writing, love and optimism opens up for him.

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