I mean, who wouldn’t want him to get out of his misery? Almost anyone can predict that this boy is going to get over all of his troubles. There’s hardly any room for curiosity where he’s heading though. Is he really just another geeky, prodigious and lenient kid or is he able to rebel against his own parents? He struggles to find that answer. His whole outlook remains in this self-engrossed paranoia, as a result of that. And again, how could he perceive himself as anything different when he’s consistently reminded by the racist bigots, of being a ‘paki’? His ‘depressing’ lyrics hold him in shackles, which hardly let him have any identity other than being a Pakistani immigrant. But his words never resonate with that white friend or particularly appeal him. Despite having an obvious leaning towards writing, Javed hasn’t gotten beyond writing simple lyrics for his friend’s (Matt’s) band. With his religious and hardworking parents, he lives in a house while sharing those morally-bound ethics with his two sisters- Yasmeen and Shazia. Similar Blinded by the Light Netflix: FALLING INN LOVE NETFLIX (2019) REVIEW: A BLAND ROMANCE ON A GOOD ADVENTURE Not exactly because of any particular anxieties but because of an internalized fear of values embodied in his upbringing, the ones that didn’t let him – have fun with the girls. Even when a white school-mate introduces his new girlfriend, Javed awkwardly tries escaping that conversation. Born and brought up in a Muslim household from England, he’s quite shy and reserved while expressing himself. And the shackles bounding us are not just on how ‘they’ perceive us, but also about what we believe to be our own identity.īased on the real-life British-Asian journalist- Sarfraz Manzoor, the film tries to tie a narrative for how the Pakistani values keep Javed (Viveik Kalra) from finding ‘his own voice’. ‘Blinded by the Light’ tries to speak along the same lines. His cousin, who’s happily married and living there on a plot of her own, still hasn’t gotten the level of acceptance we presume we would get. And then, he started speaking about how things haven’t changed as we would like to think. Although quite optimistic, he seemed hesitant speaking about his survival there, as an Indian.

He was building his own escapist fantasy of going abroad for studies.

Just the other day, a friend was telling me about his further plans. Blinded by the Light is now streaming on Netflix

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