Blinded by the Light (2019)

Viveik Kalra: Javed

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Quotes 

• Javed : Who's that?

  Roops : The Boss.

  Javed : Whose boss?

  Roops : The boss of us all.

• Passport Official : [Processing Javed's entry into the United States]  Purpose of your visit?

  Javed : I'm going to see Bruce Springsteen's hometown.

  Passport Official : I can't think of a better reason to visit the United States than to see the home of the Boss!

• Javed : [about his poems]  They're not brilliant, but they're mine.

• Javed : Goodbye, cheese and pickle! My summer job is done! The cold war rages on. Reagan and Thatcher are still number one! But I'm stuck in Luton, one of the herd. No fun, freedom or future, 'cause Luton is a four-letter word.

• Javed : It's Bruce Springsteen.

  Malik : Springsteen? Jewish?

• Javed : Dad, I want to be a writer.

  Malik : Writing isn't a job.

  Javed : It can be!

  Malik : Name me one Pakistani writer. Just one!

• Javed : But the reason I connected with Springsteen is because what he sings about and champions are not only American values but are the best of human values. He talks about working hard and holding on to your dreams and not letting the hardness of the world stop you from letting the best of you slip away.

• Javed : My dad's not a typical dad. We don't have

  [sniffs] 

  Javed : jokey chats. He's not like the dads you see on the telly. A lot of the time he seems pretty angry at the world. I think Bruce Springsteen would understand my dad, 'cause, like his father, they both came from poor backgrounds, both worked hard in factories, both had dreams that never came true, which left them angry. And they both had sons who wanted the chance to make them proud.