Javed's schoolmates are more interested in dandyish New Wave, but The Boss's music does catch the ear of his politically conscious crush Eliza, and it eventually inspires Javed to approach her, to write, and to believe in himself. But when a friend gives Javed a Bruce Springsteen mixtape, he suddenly discovers that although he wasn't born in the U.S.A., he was definitely born to run-and "Dancing in the Dark" explodes onto the soundtrack (and the lyrics onto the screen) for a set piece somewhere between an '80s music video and a Bollywood production number. It's worse if you, like Javed (Viveik Kalra), are pressured by your embittered workaholic father, worse still if you're Pakistani and menaced by racist skinheads. During the doldrums of the Thatcher years, there's not much for a bright teenager to do in the drab factory town of Luton, England, except plot how to get out.
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