![]() ![]() It’s about other people seeing something in themselves in the story.” “It’s not just about me telling my story. “You’re an LA dude in your 20s! How can you say this about a film set about a Pakistani family?” Someone else said to him, “I’m Korean and I can see my dad in your dad.” For Manzoor, this is humbling. In Los Angeles, a viewer said, “I’ve never connected with any film as much as I’ve connected with yours.” For Manzoor, that has been one of the most amazing things about sharing his story. Their friendship seems to represent what the film is saying: music, and shared humanity, can bring us together, regardless of each of our backgrounds. There is mutual respect and common ground. ![]() There’s a chemistry between Manzoor, Chadha, and Springsteen that is beyond fandom. “I sent the script to him and three weeks later, we got word from him and his basic words were, ‘I’m all good with this.’ That’s all he said…That’s all we needed!” So we had some kind of a connection.”įlash forward. “Because I was there at the front so much, he got to recognize me…and because there weren’t that many Asian Springsteen fans, I was quite visible. “In that time, I was often at the front,” he recalled. “I went to every single Bruce Springsteen concert in the country - so that was a lot!” In total, including outside Britain, Manzoor saw the Boss “about 150 times.” And Manzoor was not a wallflower. ![]() As depicted in the film, Manzoor was introduced to Springsteen’s music in 1987. The Boss gave his blessing to the movie, which Manzoor and Chadha acquired not in small part due to the groundwork Manzoor had laid over the years as a MAJOR fan. Javed (played by Viveik Kalra) woos Eliza (played by Nell Williams) with the words and music of Springsteen in Blinded by the Light. ![]()
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