One of the best films of the year is undoubtedly Blinded By The Light and we have the release date and planned bonus material for its incoming home release which just so happens to be in just a couple of weeks. More on the Blinded By The Light DVD release below.
Based on Manzoor’s memoir ‘Greetings from Bury Park: Race, Religion and Rock N’ Roll,’ Blinded by the Light follows the inspirational story of 16-year-old British Pakistani boy, Javed (Viveik Kalra) growing up in the boring, industrial city of Luton in 1987. Javed wants what all teenagers want: a girlfriend, the freedom to go to parties, but most of all, he wants to be a writer. Unfortunately, his family has other ideas of how Pakistani boys should behave. A chance run-in with a boy at his new school leaves Javed with a Bruce Springsteen cassette tape. When he first hears Springsteen’s music, everything in his life changes. The lyrics encourage him to find his own writing voice, talk to the girl he’s always fancied and challenge his Dad’s strict rule over the house. He’s soon forced to discover for himself how to balance all the things that are most important in his life: his writing, his family, his friends and his dreams.
We reviewed the film very positively back in the summer and can’t wait to see it all over again on the home formats. The Blinded By The Light DVD release, and the Blu-ray release is set for 9th December, so here in plenty of time for Christmas, but if you’re wanting it purely on digital then you’ll be able to see it a little earlier as it is release on all the familiar platforms from 2nd December.
The Blinded By The Light DVD release will include three specific bonus features – an audio commentary with director and writer Gurinder Chadha and Writer Sarfraz Manzoor, an unspecified featurette and a Sundance Featurette.
More as it is fired our way.
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