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[traffic passing on busy road]
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[traffic noise continues]
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[boy] September 1980.
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My best friend Matt and I
have the same birthday.
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He got a brand-new chopper bike.
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It's really fast and looks so cool.
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I got a Rubik's Cube.
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But Matt gave me this diary
that he didn't want.
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And I'm going to write in it every day.
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The Russians have been
in Afghanistan for 363 days.
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"Baggy Trousers" by Madness
is my favorite song.
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Matt.
I can't wait to go to London together.
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Look at all the people going there.
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[Matt] Yeah.
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They wanna come up
the motorway at Luton.
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-Come on.
-Yeah.
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[Matt] Hop on.
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-You're on?
-Yeah.
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-Let's go.
-Whoo-hoo!
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-This is brilliant, Matt!
-Whoo-hoo!
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We're gonna be best friends forever!
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["It's a Sin" playing]
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[indistinct talking]
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[man] Coronation chicken next week.
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Great. Nice one. Thanks.
Yeah, I'll see you later. Javed.
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There you go, Javed, son.
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[Javed] Goodbye, cheese and pickle.
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My summer job is done!
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The Cold War rages on.
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Reagan and Thatcher are still number one.
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But I'm stuck in Luton, one of the herd,
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no fun, freedom or future.
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Cause Luton is a four-letter word.
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♪ When I look back upon my life ♪
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♪ It's always with a sense of shame ♪
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♪ I've always been the one to blame ♪
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♪ For everything I long to do ♪
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♪ No matter when or where or who ♪
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♪ Has one thing in common too ♪
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♪ It's a... It's a... It's a... ♪
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-♪ It's a sin ♪
-[indistinct shouting]
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♪ It's a sin ♪
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♪ Everything I've ever done ♪
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♪ Everything I ever do ♪
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♪ Every place I've ever been ♪
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♪ Everywhere I'm going to ♪
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♪ It's a sin ♪
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[bike brakes squeaking]
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Matt!
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[laughs] J!
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You muppet.
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-How was Ibiza?
-Oh, mate, wicked.
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Met Emma over there.
She's from St. Albans.
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-Works in HMV.
-All right?
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[voice squeaks] All right?
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[deeper voice] I just finished work.
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I'm writing you a new song for your band.
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-It's about the Cold War.
-Javed writes all the time.
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You know? Like, diaries, poems.
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He even wrote one about Bo Derek once.
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-And he sent it to her.
-[they laugh]
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And I wrote some of your best essays, too.
Remember?
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-Yeah.
-[boys laugh]
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[Javed] Pet Shop Boys got
the best number one this year so far.
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[Matt] I told you, mate. Listen.
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Synths are the future. [whooshes]
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-[Javed laughs]
-Anyway...
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happy birthday, mate.
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Got it at the airport. You know?
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It's a fertility symbol
from the Balearics.
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Thanks.
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You know, I thought it might, er...
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help you pick up a bird one day, maybe.
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-He's never had a girlfriend before, so...
-Hey?
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Is that against your religion?
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No.
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Thanks, Matt.
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-I'll see you later, mate.
-See you later.
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He's missing out.
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-[car stereo playing song in Urdu]
-[father] What are they doing?
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[horn honks]
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[engine and music turn off]
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[in Urdu] Oh, my God!
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[in English]
How can you be friends with that boy?
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No shame at all. [sighs]
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I didn't move out of Bury Park
to see this.
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You should tell him this is very bad.
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Very bad behavior
in a good neighborhood.
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Dad, he's English.
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-[scoffs] Your sister's coming.
-[slow acoustic music]
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Get the shopping out of the car.
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[Javed sighs]
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[sister] Matt's back, then?
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[groans]
He's torturing me with his perfect life.
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-[horn honking]
-[Matt's father] Go on, my son!
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[chuckling]
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All right, J?
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I taught him all he knows.
All the moves.
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[Matt's father]
Very nice to meet you, Princess Emma.
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[woman] There you go, sweetheart...
19 pounds... 50 pence.
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I'll drop another 30 dresses
off to you tomorrow morning.
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Oh! Lucky you,
having such a helpful family.
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Look at this! Oh!
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My kids treat my place like a hotel.
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I'll tell you something,
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you've done something right,
turning kids out like that.
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-Ta, sweetheart.
-Goodbye.
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-Javed.
-[clicks fingers]
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[Javed sighs quietly]
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[sewing machine whirs]
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[Javed] September 3rd, 1987.
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My dad is stuck in another century.
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He treats me like I'm six, not sixteen.
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[father] Javed, beta, come!
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-We're ready for your party.
-[sighs]
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-Oh. He's coming.
-[soft Urdu music plays]
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Happy birthday.
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Time to smarten up. You're not a kid
anymore, Javed. [chuckles]
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Thanks... girls.
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Not girls. Sisters.
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[mother] Come on. Let's light the candle.
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[mother] Yasmeen, photo.
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-Say cheese.
-[click]
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[whirring]
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Make a wish, beta.
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[Javed] Make loads of money, kiss a girl,
get out of this dump.
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[Matt sighs]
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You were supposed to be
writing a pop song.
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Who writes songs about nuclear war
and Thatcher, anyway?
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You write about depressing things.
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Like, you haven't got any money,
or you can't watch Rocky on telly.
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That's not true. I write
about politics and Reaganomics--
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Oh, Javed. Javed, Javed.
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You spent four years, mate,
going on about your bloody dad
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who wouldn't let you have
an Acorn Electron with a 32-kilobyte RAM.
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It also had a 32-kilobyte ROM.
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Yeah, well, I can't really sing
about you and your dad.
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Can I?
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[up-tempo electronic music playing softly]
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Is he making you do A Levels as well?
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No. I'm doing it for me.
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I want to go to college.
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-[blows raspberry]
-Getting good A Levels
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will get me into university.
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That's my only ticket out of here, mate.
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["Lesson in Love" playing]
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It's 4:00 a.m. in New York,
4:00 p.m. in Tokyo
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and 9:00 a.m. right here in Luton.
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You're listening to Radio Luton,
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the official radio station
for Luton Sixth Form College.
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I'm Colin Hand,
the hand that rocks the turntable,
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with the first lesson of a new year
and the subject, "Lessons in Love."
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♪ I'm not proud, I was wrong
And the truth... ♪
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First day.
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Start at the top and stay there.
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Study hard, so you don't have to work
in a factory like me all your life.
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Yes, Dad.
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If you want to succeed,
look for the Jews in your class.
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Do what the Jews do.
They're very successful people.
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I think that's a bit racist, Dad.
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It's the truth.
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-Oh, hi!
-[chatter and laughter]
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Hey. You're here to study, OK?
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I'll find you a wife in good time.
You leave that to me.
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[Javed groans quietly]
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[lively chatter outside]
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And remember...
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stay away from the girls!
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-Follow the Jews!
-Er? What?
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[girl] What was that?
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♪ Lessons in love ♪
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♪ When will you ever learn? ♪
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♪ Lessons in love ♪
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♪ When there's nowhere left to turn ♪
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♪ All the dreams that we were building ♪
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♪ We never lived them ♪
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♪ We could lose it ♪
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♪ We should use it ♪
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-♪ Lessons in... ♪
-[needle scratches on record]
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I'm really sorry. Did I break it?
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-Who's that?
-The Boss.
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-Whose boss?
-The boss of us all.
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[soft guitar music]
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[chatter]
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[girl] I'm really late. I missed the bus.
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[boy] I wasn't sure
about the route either.
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Right. Everyone in?
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My name is Miss Clay,
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and I want to know why you're here.
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Anybody?
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To pass me exams, miss.
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Well, thanks to Maggie Thatcher,
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even if you do pass your exams
and get a degree,
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there'll be few jobs waiting for you.
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So, what I want to make this class about
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is figuring out where you stand.
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What you think.
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The writers that we'll be studying
this year are immortal.
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Their themes are universal.
Shakespeare, Dickens, Woolf.
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Who here... wants to live forever,
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like them?
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Who here wants to be a writer?
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Miss Clay?
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-Yes... erm...?
-Er, Eliza.
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Isn't the job of a writer to...
make a difference?
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-You know, to change the world?
-Yes. Yes, that's a start.
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The writers I admire make a difference.
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They tell the world
something that it needs to hear.
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-[bell ringing]
-[chatter]
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What's your name again?
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Javed.
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Javed, you put your hand up earlier,
and then you put it down.
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Um...
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Miss Clay...
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I've been writing poems and a diary
since I was about ten.
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But it's really not that interesting.
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Then why do you do it?
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I don't know.
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To put down my thoughts, I guess.
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You see, in my house,
no one's allowed opinions except my dad.
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["I Just Died in Your Arms" playing]
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-What would you like, love?
-Chips and beans, please.
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-There you go, love.
-Thank you.
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♪ Oh, I just died in your arms tonight ♪
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♪ It must have been something you said ♪
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♪ I just died in your arms tonight ♪
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[Javed] This place is bad.
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It's the United Nations of kicking tribes.
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You've got goths, a Salt-N-Pepa crew,
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there's Wham! boys,
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Bananarama girls and...
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and there's Eliza.
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Smart, sassy...
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and a politico fighting
to free Nelson Mandela.
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And then there's me. I don't have a tribe.
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[chatter and laughter]
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[music continues over speakers]
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Oi.
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Bilal No-Mates.
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-All right?
-[chuckles]
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[sighs]
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What are you writing?
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Nothing.
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An essay? Already?
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-Are you a swot or something?
-No.
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Just a diary.
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So... tell me about the Boss.
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Bruce is the direct line
to all that's true in this shitty world.
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-Seriously?
-Mm.
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What does he know about our world?
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Guard these with your life, yeah?
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You can thank me later.
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[music in background]
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[spray can hissing and rattling]
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[Javed] A boy spat at me today...
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after he wrote his filth on the wall.
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This time, I tried not to run.
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This time, I tried to stand tall
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and say,
"I'm not scared, you stupid clown."
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You're not better than me.
This is also my hometown."
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Stand up to him. Why do you run?
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Face the pathetic NF scum.
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You're better than this.
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[panting]
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-Where's Matt?
-He's a bit... busy.
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[Matt] Emma!
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Why are you answering the door
just wearing that?
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-You all right, mate?
-Yeah.
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Uh... Got my lyrics, then?
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That's what I came round to say.
I'm working on it.
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Ah. You still coming to my party tonight?
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-Yeah, of course.
-Good.
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Emma's mates are coming,
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and I know one
who would be perfect for you.
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-She's not fussy.
-Really?
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-Yeah.
-Cheers.
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I promise this time I'll come.
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How many times I have to tell you?
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Pakistanis do not go to parties.
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I thought I was British.
00:16:39.416 --> 00:16:41.791
You do not know this country
like I do, huh?
00:16:42.125 --> 00:16:43.333
Do you remember Enoch Powell?
00:16:44.708 --> 00:16:45.916
They will never accept you, beta.
00:16:46.541 --> 00:16:48.083
Matt accepts me.
00:16:48.500 --> 00:16:50.833
Listen to me. You're very lucky.
00:16:51.708 --> 00:16:53.333
You will always be Pakistani.
00:16:53.833 --> 00:16:55.208
You will never be British.
00:16:55.291 --> 00:16:58.208
["Pump Up the Volume" playing]
00:17:02.000 --> 00:17:04.208
♪ Pump up the volume, pump up the volume ♪
00:17:04.291 --> 00:17:06.416
♪ Pump up the volume, dance, dance ♪
00:17:08.416 --> 00:17:10.041
-[boy 1] Whoo!
-[boy 2] Cheers!
00:17:13.625 --> 00:17:16.375
[chatter and laughter]
00:17:16.458 --> 00:17:19.250
[boy] Scott. Scott!
00:17:20.916 --> 00:17:22.291
[birdsong]
00:17:28.208 --> 00:17:29.291
[father sighs]
00:17:34.541 --> 00:17:36.750
[father grunts]
00:17:40.166 --> 00:17:42.833
[engine fails to start]
00:17:44.375 --> 00:17:45.458
[engine fails to start]
00:17:45.541 --> 00:17:48.625
-["Live It Up" playing]
-[Javed groans]
00:17:53.125 --> 00:17:54.791
-[Javed's father] OK, wait.
-[Shazia] Again?
00:17:55.791 --> 00:17:57.000
Wait for your mother.
00:18:00.041 --> 00:18:03.250
After three. One, two, three, push!
00:18:05.541 --> 00:18:08.625
[Javed's father]
OK, everyone to the back now!
00:18:08.958 --> 00:18:10.583
[in Punjabi] Push the car!
00:18:13.166 --> 00:18:15.541
[in English] OK, one, two, three, push!
00:18:19.541 --> 00:18:20.916
Let's go!
00:18:21.958 --> 00:18:23.416
[engine starts]
00:18:24.750 --> 00:18:26.333
[father] Come on, come on, get in!
Let's go!
00:18:26.416 --> 00:18:27.958
[engine revs]
00:18:28.041 --> 00:18:30.166
[tires squeal and engine revs]
00:18:32.083 --> 00:18:33.750
[father] Great neighborhood, Mr. Shah.
00:18:34.458 --> 00:18:38.041
[Mr. Shah] We are the first Pakistanis
on this street. [chuckles]
00:18:38.416 --> 00:18:40.458
-Remember when we came in the '70s?
-[Javed's father exhales in agreement]
00:18:41.291 --> 00:18:43.875
-Luton was a good town then.
-Ah. [chuckles]
00:18:45.416 --> 00:18:47.791
Today, there are too many Pakistanis.
00:18:47.875 --> 00:18:51.291
[both laugh]
00:18:52.208 --> 00:18:53.208
[sighs]
00:18:53.708 --> 00:18:54.833
[Javed's father groans]
00:18:56.875 --> 00:18:59.625
[Mr. Shah] I need your help again
for a new mortgage application.
00:19:00.250 --> 00:19:01.583
This is next door?
00:19:01.875 --> 00:19:04.916
It's for my eldest.
He's getting married soon.
00:19:05.000 --> 00:19:09.208
Oh! Congratulations. Mubarak, Mr. Shah!
00:19:09.875 --> 00:19:11.083
He doesn't know it yet.
00:19:12.041 --> 00:19:14.291
But he's a good boy. He does what I say.
00:19:14.375 --> 00:19:16.041
[in Punjabi] Ah. Did you hear that?
00:19:18.541 --> 00:19:21.416
[Mr. Shah speaks in Urdu]
Dear, get samosa for Mr. Malik
00:19:21.791 --> 00:19:24.166
and for Javed... Well done.
00:19:24.250 --> 00:19:26.125
-[boy] Let's do the Paki house.
-Thank you, ji.
00:19:26.208 --> 00:19:29.125
-[Mrs. Shah] Eh! What are you doing?
-[boy] He's doing a wee-wee.
00:19:29.208 --> 00:19:31.458
[boy] Aim it down on the carpet.
00:19:31.541 --> 00:19:34.541
-[Mrs. Shah] Hooligan boy.
-[boy] It's a wee-wee delivery.
00:19:34.625 --> 00:19:36.625
-[Mr. Shah mutters in Urdu]
-[boy] Pissing on the Pakis!
00:19:36.708 --> 00:19:39.041
-What is happening here?
-[Mrs. Shah] Wee-wee, all on my carpet.
00:19:39.125 --> 00:19:41.000
-Clean it quickly, come on. Quickly.
-[Javed's father exhales in surprise]
00:19:41.083 --> 00:19:43.416
-Please.
-Just the young kids are just playing.
00:19:43.500 --> 00:19:45.875
[boy] Smelly, smelly Pakis!
00:19:45.958 --> 00:19:48.166
It's OK.
That's why we have this plastic here.
00:19:48.250 --> 00:19:50.875
I cleaned your floor for you. [laughs]
00:19:50.958 --> 00:19:51.916
[Mr. Shah] Don't let the wee
go on the carpet.
00:19:52.250 --> 00:19:53.458
Pakis!
00:20:03.000 --> 00:20:04.000
Javed.
00:20:13.625 --> 00:20:14.541
[Miss Clay] Not what you expected?
00:20:16.041 --> 00:20:17.666
This is your third essay for me.
00:20:19.583 --> 00:20:22.375
-I'm beginning to understand you and--
-I write poems too, Miss.
00:20:23.083 --> 00:20:24.625
That's why I thought
I understood the assignment.
00:20:25.000 --> 00:20:27.208
That brief section about
the Indian soldiers missing home
00:20:27.750 --> 00:20:29.416
and cooking their own food
in the trenches,
00:20:29.500 --> 00:20:30.875
that was amazing.
00:20:31.458 --> 00:20:32.708
That was your voice.
00:20:33.041 --> 00:20:34.250
I wanted more.
00:20:37.166 --> 00:20:38.291
Tell me about your poems.
00:20:39.625 --> 00:20:41.083
They're crap, Miss.
00:20:41.166 --> 00:20:42.541
Yeah, but they're your crap.
00:20:43.625 --> 00:20:46.500
And if you keep at it,
one day you might think they're not crap.
00:20:47.000 --> 00:20:48.083
[typewriter keys clacking]
00:20:48.166 --> 00:20:50.291
-[phone ringing in distance]
-I want to write for the paper.
00:20:51.708 --> 00:20:54.208
We're not really looking
for new writers at the moment.
00:20:54.625 --> 00:20:56.583
I like to write, and I want to learn.
00:20:57.125 --> 00:20:58.208
I could show you some of my work.
00:20:59.541 --> 00:21:00.791
I'd rather you didn't.
00:21:01.291 --> 00:21:05.041
-I could show you some of my poems.
-I... really don't wanna read them.
00:21:08.083 --> 00:21:10.875
[thunder]
00:21:12.125 --> 00:21:13.833
[music on TV]
00:21:13.916 --> 00:21:17.541
[mother] Beti, I'm so happy.
They have found a boy.
00:21:17.875 --> 00:21:21.000
-And he's definitely not a taxi driver?
-No, beti. He's a graduate.
00:21:21.666 --> 00:21:24.916
-MA from the University of Rawalpindi.
-[Yasmeen] I want to ask more overtime...
00:21:25.000 --> 00:21:27.583
Vauxhall Motors are cutting
a thousand jobs.
00:21:27.666 --> 00:21:30.916
They're trying to reduce
their operating costs by a quarter.
00:21:31.166 --> 00:21:34.833
Staff will be cut at their factories
in Luton and Ellesmere Port.
00:21:34.916 --> 00:21:38.875
The company says an early retirement
scheme for workers over 55
00:21:38.958 --> 00:21:41.916
should bring the present workforce
of 12,500
00:21:42.000 --> 00:21:43.708
down by the required amount,
00:21:43.791 --> 00:21:47.666
but the unions say they believe
more redundancies may be necessary.
00:21:47.750 --> 00:21:51.291
Vauxhall, General Motors' existing
car-making subsidiary in this country...
00:21:51.375 --> 00:21:52.708
What are they saying?
00:21:53.041 --> 00:21:56.333
Vauxhall's laying off half the workforce.
Dad's job.
00:21:56.416 --> 00:21:59.208
No, beta. He's been there for 16 years.
00:21:59.583 --> 00:22:01.916
Double shift, night shift,
whatever they wanted.
00:22:10.750 --> 00:22:13.250
Of more than 50 adults,
just four have jobs.
00:22:13.333 --> 00:22:16.000
The average period of unemployment
is nine years.
00:22:17.708 --> 00:22:20.583
[Javed] Vauxhall dumped Dad
like an old, disused engine.
00:22:23.125 --> 00:22:24.291
Tell me.
00:22:24.500 --> 00:22:27.541
[Javed] Dear General Motors,
Let me speak from the heart.
00:22:28.416 --> 00:22:32.166
You took my dad's job
And you tore my family apart.
00:22:32.666 --> 00:22:36.625
I'll have to stop studying
And Mum will need to work faster.
00:22:37.041 --> 00:22:40.125
My life now is a total disaster.
00:22:40.833 --> 00:22:43.416
I want to escape this depressing town.
00:22:43.750 --> 00:22:45.375
Is that such a crime?
00:22:45.666 --> 00:22:50.083
How useless am I, sitting here,
Trying to make words rhyme?
00:22:50.333 --> 00:22:52.625
[TV] Earlier on today, apparently
a woman rang the BBC and said
00:22:52.708 --> 00:22:54.625
she heard that there was
a hurricane on the way.
00:22:54.708 --> 00:22:56.416
Well, if you're watching,
don't worry, there isn't.
00:22:57.000 --> 00:22:59.208
But having said that, actually
the weather will become very windy.
00:22:59.291 --> 00:23:01.541
[rapid writing]
00:23:01.916 --> 00:23:03.333
[gentle knock then door opens]
00:23:03.625 --> 00:23:06.208
[TV sound]
00:23:07.708 --> 00:23:08.833
You OK, J?
00:23:08.916 --> 00:23:11.666
[wind howling outside]
00:23:12.458 --> 00:23:13.708
What's gonna happen to us?
00:23:17.833 --> 00:23:19.916
-Javed?
-I don't know
00:23:20.500 --> 00:23:23.166
but writing crap poems
doesn't help anyone.
00:23:23.250 --> 00:23:25.500
-Don't say that.
-You and me, Shazia,
00:23:25.583 --> 00:23:27.875
we were born at the wrong time,
in the wrong town,
00:23:28.125 --> 00:23:29.083
in the wrong town, in the wrong family.
00:23:40.291 --> 00:23:41.958
[wind whistling outside]
00:23:44.375 --> 00:23:46.333
[wind howling]
00:23:53.625 --> 00:23:55.625
[thunder]
00:24:11.916 --> 00:24:12.875
[sighs]
00:24:23.250 --> 00:24:24.375
[thunder]
00:24:36.083 --> 00:24:38.125
["Dancing in the Dark" playing]
00:24:38.208 --> 00:24:40.541
♪ I get up in the evening ♪
00:24:42.125 --> 00:24:44.500
-♪ And I ain't got nothing to say ♪
-[thunder]
00:24:44.583 --> 00:24:46.791
♪ I come home in the morning ♪
00:24:47.750 --> 00:24:51.125
♪ I go to bed feeling the same way ♪
00:24:51.208 --> 00:24:53.375
♪ I ain't nothing but tired ♪
00:24:54.625 --> 00:24:58.000
♪ Man, I'm just tired and bored
With myself ♪
00:24:58.416 --> 00:25:00.208
♪ Hey there, baby ♪
00:25:01.541 --> 00:25:03.875
♪ I could use just a little help ♪
00:25:03.958 --> 00:25:06.041
-♪ You can't start a fire... ♪
-[music stops]
00:25:06.125 --> 00:25:07.416
[Javed breathing heavily]
00:25:09.541 --> 00:25:11.500
♪ Messages keep getting clearer ♪
00:25:12.791 --> 00:25:16.000
♪ Radio's on
And I'm moving round my place ♪
00:25:16.083 --> 00:25:18.000
♪ I check my look in the mirror ♪
00:25:19.291 --> 00:25:22.125
♪ Wanna change my clothes
My hair, my face ♪
00:25:22.666 --> 00:25:24.833
♪ Man, I ain't getting nowhere ♪
00:25:26.166 --> 00:25:28.958
♪ I'm just living in a dump like this ♪
00:25:29.041 --> 00:25:31.541
♪ There's something happening somewhere ♪
00:25:33.125 --> 00:25:35.458
♪ Baby, I just know that there is ♪
00:25:35.541 --> 00:25:37.375
♪ You can't start a fire ♪
00:25:38.708 --> 00:25:41.875
♪ You can't start a fire without a spark ♪
00:25:41.958 --> 00:25:43.958
♪ This gun's for hire ♪
00:25:45.375 --> 00:25:48.416
♪ Even if we're just dancing
In the dark... ♪
00:25:48.500 --> 00:25:50.875
Hey! Have you gone mental?
00:25:50.958 --> 00:25:52.333
Close the bloody window!
00:25:52.750 --> 00:25:54.500
The whole house is freezing now.
00:25:55.250 --> 00:25:56.375
You should be listening to our music
00:25:56.458 --> 00:25:59.083
before you start getting confused
and hating yourself.
00:26:01.208 --> 00:26:03.541
♪ You sit around getting older ♪
00:26:04.541 --> 00:26:07.708
♪ There's a joke here somewhere
And it's on me ♪
00:26:07.791 --> 00:26:10.000
♪ I'll shake this world off my shoulders ♪
00:26:11.083 --> 00:26:13.458
♪ Come on, baby, the laugh's on me ♪
00:26:14.208 --> 00:26:16.750
♪ Stay on the streets of this town ♪
00:26:18.041 --> 00:26:20.791
♪ And they'll be carving you up alright ♪
00:26:20.875 --> 00:26:23.041
♪ They say you gotta stay hungry ♪
00:26:23.958 --> 00:26:27.083
♪ Hey, baby,
I'm just about starving tonight ♪
00:26:27.166 --> 00:26:29.625
♪ I'm dying for some action ♪
00:26:30.541 --> 00:26:33.666
♪ I'm sick of sitting round here
Trying to write this book ♪
00:26:33.750 --> 00:26:35.000
-♪ I need... ♪
-[music stops]
00:26:38.208 --> 00:26:41.500
♪ I've done my best
To live the right way ♪
00:26:41.583 --> 00:26:45.375
♪ I get up every morning
And go to work each day ♪
00:26:46.000 --> 00:26:49.625
♪ But your eyes go blind
And your blood runs cold ♪
00:26:49.708 --> 00:26:53.916
♪ Sometimes I feel so weak
I just wanna explode ♪
00:26:54.458 --> 00:26:57.875
♪ Explode and tear this whole town apart ♪
00:26:58.166 --> 00:27:02.833
♪ Take a knife
And cut this pain from my heart ♪
00:27:02.916 --> 00:27:06.541
♪ Find somebody itching
For something to start ♪
00:27:06.625 --> 00:27:08.916
♪ The dogs on Main Street howl ♪
00:27:09.000 --> 00:27:10.583
♪ Cause they understand ♪
00:27:10.666 --> 00:27:14.958
♪ If I could wrench one moment
Into my hands ♪
00:27:15.041 --> 00:27:17.333
♪ Mister, I ain't a boy ♪
00:27:17.416 --> 00:27:19.375
♪ No, I'm a man ♪
00:27:19.458 --> 00:27:23.166
♪ And I believe in a Promised Land ♪
00:27:24.333 --> 00:27:28.291
♪ Well, there's a dark cloud rising
From the desert floor ♪
00:27:28.375 --> 00:27:32.583
♪ I packed my bags and I'm heading
Straight into the storm ♪
00:27:32.875 --> 00:27:36.875
♪ Gonna be a twister
To blow everything down ♪
00:27:36.958 --> 00:27:40.791
♪ That ain't got the faith
To stand its ground ♪
00:27:40.875 --> 00:27:45.291
♪ Blow away the dreams
That tear you apart ♪
00:27:45.375 --> 00:27:49.250
♪ Blow away the dreams
That break your heart ♪
00:27:49.333 --> 00:27:51.916
♪ Blow away the lies ♪
00:27:52.000 --> 00:27:57.541
♪ That leave you nothing
But lost and brokenhearted ♪
00:27:57.625 --> 00:28:00.041
♪ The dogs on Main Street howl ♪
00:28:00.125 --> 00:28:01.291
♪ Cause they understand ♪
00:28:01.375 --> 00:28:05.708
♪ If I could wrench
One moment into my hands ♪
00:28:06.083 --> 00:28:07.875
♪ Mister, I ain't a boy ♪
00:28:07.958 --> 00:28:10.458
♪ No, I'm a man ♪
00:28:10.541 --> 00:28:14.541
♪ And I believe in a Promised Land ♪
00:28:16.166 --> 00:28:18.958
[singer vocalizing]
00:28:26.375 --> 00:28:29.416
"If I could take one moment into my hands
00:28:30.375 --> 00:28:32.625
Mister, I ain't a boy
00:28:32.708 --> 00:28:34.500
No, I'm a man
00:28:34.583 --> 00:28:37.666
And I believe in a Promised Land!"
00:28:48.791 --> 00:28:50.833
[saxophone solo]
00:28:59.625 --> 00:29:00.541
My poems.
00:29:08.125 --> 00:29:09.458
Did you fish them out of a bin?
00:29:10.458 --> 00:29:12.250
I did throw them away last night.
00:29:13.333 --> 00:29:14.541
But then I changed my mind.
00:29:15.041 --> 00:29:17.416
They're not brilliant, but they're mine.
00:29:18.708 --> 00:29:19.625
[Mrs. Anderson inhales]
00:29:25.500 --> 00:29:29.291
[Javed] Roops! Roops!
I listened to everything.
00:29:29.375 --> 00:29:30.875
Both tapes.
00:29:30.958 --> 00:29:33.375
I'm telling you,
I could feel it all right here.
00:29:33.666 --> 00:29:35.833
It's like Bruce knows
everything I've ever felt,
00:29:36.208 --> 00:29:37.541
everything I've ever wanted.
00:29:37.625 --> 00:29:41.333
I mean, "Sometimes I feel so weak,
I just wanna explode.
00:29:41.416 --> 00:29:43.708
Explode and tear this whole town apart.
00:29:44.041 --> 00:29:46.000
Take a knife and cut this pain
from my heart."
00:29:47.041 --> 00:29:48.708
I didn't know music could be like that.
00:29:50.375 --> 00:29:54.500
I mean, "Is a dream
a lie if it don't come true?
00:29:54.583 --> 00:29:56.541
Or is it something worse?"
00:29:57.125 --> 00:30:00.958
Congratulations.
You've popped your Bruce cherry.
00:30:01.250 --> 00:30:02.625
You never forget your first time.
00:30:02.708 --> 00:30:03.833
[exhales deeply]
00:30:03.916 --> 00:30:06.708
-[typewriter clacking]
-[door opens]
00:30:08.000 --> 00:30:09.250
I wrote something.
00:30:10.458 --> 00:30:11.541
Did I ask you to write something?
00:30:11.625 --> 00:30:13.208
I had to write it. It's about music.
00:30:14.083 --> 00:30:15.041
A record review.
00:30:15.125 --> 00:30:17.083
Sort of. Can you read it?
00:30:21.791 --> 00:30:24.708
"It's a town full of losers
and I'm pulling out of here to win."
00:30:25.291 --> 00:30:28.125
"Thunder Road... Springsteen."
00:30:29.208 --> 00:30:31.875
No one listens to Springsteen anymore.
He's history.
00:30:32.750 --> 00:30:34.875
Can you just read it? Please.
00:30:42.875 --> 00:30:44.916
["Backstreets" playing]
00:30:50.166 --> 00:30:54.916
♪ One soft infested summer
Me and Terry became friends ♪
00:30:55.000 --> 00:31:00.375
♪ Trying in vain to breathe the fire
We was born in ♪
00:31:00.458 --> 00:31:04.916
♪ Catching rides to the outskirts
Tying faith between our teeth ♪
00:31:05.000 --> 00:31:07.750
♪ Sleeping in that old
Abandoned beach house ♪
00:31:07.833 --> 00:31:09.750
♪ Getting wasted in the heat... ♪
00:31:09.833 --> 00:31:10.791
[Mrs. Anderson] Javed.
00:31:16.041 --> 00:31:17.125
I'm really disappointed in you.
00:31:18.375 --> 00:31:19.583
You hated my poems...
00:31:19.666 --> 00:31:22.458
I hated that you threw them away
before anyone ever read them.
00:31:22.750 --> 00:31:24.291
-You read them?
-Every one of them.
00:31:25.958 --> 00:31:27.666
Even "Luton Is A Four-Letter Word"?
00:31:27.958 --> 00:31:29.250
Yeah.
00:31:29.333 --> 00:31:31.541
And I can think of several more
four-letter words for Luton too.
00:31:32.208 --> 00:31:35.083
But the point is they're raw,
they're distinctive.
00:31:36.083 --> 00:31:38.250
You have a responsibility
to make this invisible,
00:31:38.333 --> 00:31:40.000
this absent voice, heard.
00:31:42.833 --> 00:31:44.333
But you're my teacher, Miss.
00:31:44.750 --> 00:31:46.583
Do you really think anyone else
would be interested?
00:31:46.666 --> 00:31:49.250
-I'm interested.
-See?
00:31:50.500 --> 00:31:52.583
Stop doubting. Keep writing.
00:31:52.666 --> 00:31:54.666
My dad doesn't even know
I'm doing English.
00:31:54.750 --> 00:31:56.541
He thinks I'm doing economics.
00:31:56.791 --> 00:31:58.416
This is about what you want.
00:31:59.000 --> 00:32:00.708
You have a gift, Javed.
00:32:00.958 --> 00:32:03.041
You could be a writer
if you put the work in.
00:32:03.875 --> 00:32:06.250
Really? Me?
00:32:06.333 --> 00:32:09.125
[man on TV] Bruce Springsteen is not
some romantic, faraway figure
00:32:09.208 --> 00:32:11.250
who sings about romantic, faraway things.
00:32:11.333 --> 00:32:13.000
He's a local boy,
and the things he deals in
00:32:13.333 --> 00:32:15.541
are things they recognize only too well.
00:32:15.625 --> 00:32:17.083
[man 1] Well, he's one of us, you know.
00:32:17.166 --> 00:32:18.208
[man 2] He's part of New Jersey.
00:32:18.291 --> 00:32:20.333
[man 1] We call him the Boss,
and he is the Boss.
00:32:20.416 --> 00:32:24.083
There was an exuberance, let's say,
about something like "Born to Run."
00:32:24.166 --> 00:32:26.333
[man on TV] The songwriting seems
to have become more concerned
00:32:26.416 --> 00:32:28.333
with rather bleak matters.
00:32:28.416 --> 00:32:32.375
Lately, I guess, mainly I've just tried
to scale it down to what I feel.
00:32:33.791 --> 00:32:35.625
Life sizes, you know.
00:32:35.708 --> 00:32:37.708
My sister, she got married
when she was really young.
00:32:37.791 --> 00:32:40.875
My brother-in-law
was a construction worker,
00:32:40.958 --> 00:32:42.916
and then they stopped building buildings,
00:32:43.000 --> 00:32:44.083
you know, when we had the recession.
00:32:44.625 --> 00:32:46.708
They just went
through a lot of real hard times.
00:32:46.791 --> 00:32:49.958
You know, they had a couple of kids.
You know, that was hard to do.
00:32:50.041 --> 00:32:55.791
And I guess if I had any heroes now,
they'd be like, you know, like them, or...
00:32:57.458 --> 00:33:01.125
You know,
people who keep the world... turning.
00:33:01.791 --> 00:33:04.250
This is for my brother-in-law
and my sister.
00:33:04.333 --> 00:33:05.916
["The River" playing over TV]
00:33:06.000 --> 00:33:08.583
♪ I come from down in the valley ♪
00:33:09.666 --> 00:33:12.291
♪ Where, mister, when you're young ♪
00:33:13.666 --> 00:33:16.583
-♪ They bring you up to do ♪
-[sings along]
00:33:17.708 --> 00:33:20.125
♪ Like your daddy done ♪
00:33:21.416 --> 00:33:24.500
♪ Me and Mary, we met in high school ♪
00:33:25.375 --> 00:33:28.375
♪ When she was just 17 ♪
00:33:29.333 --> 00:33:32.458
♪ We'd drive out of this valley ♪
00:33:33.208 --> 00:33:37.083
♪ Down to where the fields were green ♪
00:33:38.916 --> 00:33:43.000
♪ We'd go down to the river ♪
00:33:43.416 --> 00:33:46.541
♪ And into the river we'd dive ♪
00:33:46.625 --> 00:33:50.791
♪ Oh, down to the river... ♪
00:33:52.541 --> 00:33:54.708
-Who was that on TV?
-No one.
00:33:56.875 --> 00:33:59.958
-It's Bruce Springsteen.
-Springsteen? Jewish?
00:34:00.458 --> 00:34:03.708
Jewish? No. He's American.
00:34:04.416 --> 00:34:06.166
Have you done that letter for Mr. Shah?
00:34:07.250 --> 00:34:09.125
-I will.
-Mm.
00:34:14.375 --> 00:34:16.291
[doorbell chimes]
00:34:20.333 --> 00:34:21.958
[Javed] Hi. Can I help you?
00:34:24.125 --> 00:34:26.833
If you've come to complain
about my wife's sewing machine,
00:34:27.458 --> 00:34:30.208
you have to appreciate
that we have taken on extra work
00:34:30.291 --> 00:34:31.666
to make ends meet.
00:34:35.208 --> 00:34:36.291
I came about this.
00:34:41.791 --> 00:34:43.750
"Don't be Dumb
00:34:43.833 --> 00:34:45.500
NF Scum...
00:34:47.250 --> 00:34:48.625
by Javed Khan"?
00:34:50.291 --> 00:34:54.416
Mr. Evans... writing is my son's hobby.
00:34:55.083 --> 00:34:56.958
He didn't mean to offend you.
I'm sure of that.
00:34:57.541 --> 00:34:58.500
Javed, say sorry.
00:34:59.583 --> 00:35:01.166
Forty-eight years ago,
00:35:01.750 --> 00:35:06.041
I marched into war with my friends
to fight men in swastikas.
00:35:07.125 --> 00:35:10.750
Today, I see swastikas on young men
on the streets of Luton.
00:35:12.083 --> 00:35:14.541
That was a very brave poem, young man.
00:35:14.625 --> 00:35:18.083
You must write more
and get your message out.
00:35:19.416 --> 00:35:21.083
NF scum indeed.
00:35:21.833 --> 00:35:23.833
[soft acoustic music]
00:35:24.000 --> 00:35:27.291
Wow. He liked my poem.
00:35:28.416 --> 00:35:30.416
-Why are you writing rubbish?
-[Javed groans]
00:35:32.500 --> 00:35:35.208
Excuse me. Did you read it?
00:35:35.916 --> 00:35:37.791
-I did.
-And?
00:35:39.541 --> 00:35:41.291
It wasn't really a review, was it?
00:35:41.500 --> 00:35:44.875
It was more like a thousand words
of closely argued adulation.
00:35:45.125 --> 00:35:46.333
I know I can do better.
00:35:46.625 --> 00:35:48.666
[scoffs] Set them out nicely.
00:35:51.958 --> 00:35:54.458
-You're a Muslim, aren't you?
-Yeah.
00:35:54.541 --> 00:35:58.291
A Pakistani into Springsteen?
Now, that's got potential.
00:35:59.000 --> 00:36:00.458
Sharpen the opening and I'll run it.
00:36:01.625 --> 00:36:02.541
Yes!
00:36:03.458 --> 00:36:06.916
Thirteen bundles. That's 130.
00:36:07.000 --> 00:36:11.625
Um, 50 pence a pop. I owe you... 65 quid.
00:36:12.208 --> 00:36:14.166
Lovely. Same again for next week?
00:36:14.416 --> 00:36:15.791
My wife wants 20 bundles.
00:36:17.791 --> 00:36:20.708
Well, I mean, that's-- that's
more than double what she did last week.
00:36:21.083 --> 00:36:22.166
Twenty is too much.
00:36:22.250 --> 00:36:25.041
Yasmeen, Javed, help her.
00:36:28.416 --> 00:36:29.833
[sighs] Blimey.
00:36:31.000 --> 00:36:33.250
[Javed's mother gulps]
00:36:34.916 --> 00:36:36.458
We can do 20 bundles.
00:36:37.083 --> 00:36:39.125
Yasmeen can help.
The children can help. I can help.
00:36:39.208 --> 00:36:42.500
Yasmeen works!
Javed and Shazia have studies.
00:36:42.583 --> 00:36:45.708
I have been working till twelve, one
in the morning. It's too much.
00:36:47.041 --> 00:36:50.416
Electricity bill. Telephone bill.
Rates. Gas bill.
00:36:50.500 --> 00:36:53.500
Yasmeen is getting married.
Shazia will be next.
00:36:54.583 --> 00:36:55.750
We need the money.
00:36:55.833 --> 00:36:58.375
What about all the work you do
helping people at the masjid?
00:36:58.708 --> 00:37:00.250
Why don't you ask them to pay you?
00:37:01.166 --> 00:37:02.125
I cannot do that.
00:37:02.500 --> 00:37:05.166
You spend time
looking at houses you can't buy,
00:37:05.250 --> 00:37:06.416
sort out your friends' mortgages.
00:37:06.791 --> 00:37:08.166
And what do you get out of that?
00:37:09.291 --> 00:37:11.583
What will people say, huh,
00:37:12.083 --> 00:37:14.000
if they thought
I was doing it for the money?
00:37:14.083 --> 00:37:15.041
[woman grunts] There.
00:37:16.291 --> 00:37:18.916
So... what are we doing?
00:37:25.541 --> 00:37:28.125
-Hm.
-Right, 20 it is.
00:37:29.166 --> 00:37:31.500
OK, I'll go and get another seven, yeah?
00:37:34.708 --> 00:37:35.791
Javed.
00:37:45.750 --> 00:37:47.375
You are my only son.
00:37:48.625 --> 00:37:49.750
I need you to do more.
00:37:50.166 --> 00:37:51.375
But, Dad, there's no jobs out there.
00:37:51.458 --> 00:37:53.166
We have to try, beta.
00:37:53.500 --> 00:37:56.208
My dream was to come here
and work hard for my family.
00:37:56.291 --> 00:37:57.541
We can't give up now.
00:37:57.625 --> 00:38:00.458
["Badlands" playing]
00:38:03.416 --> 00:38:05.625
[man] I'm sorry, boss. I'm sorry.
It's not gonna happen again.
00:38:05.708 --> 00:38:07.125
[man] Don't do it again.
00:38:07.875 --> 00:38:09.875
-Have you got any jobs?
-Javed, son,
00:38:10.458 --> 00:38:12.666
no weekend work, no part-time, nothing.
00:38:14.208 --> 00:38:15.833
♪ Well, lights out tonight ♪
00:38:16.458 --> 00:38:17.958
♪ Trouble in the heartland ♪
00:38:18.041 --> 00:38:22.166
♪ Got a head-on collision
Smashin' in my guts, man ♪
00:38:22.250 --> 00:38:24.333
♪ I'm caught in a crossfire ♪
00:38:24.416 --> 00:38:27.041
♪ That I don't understand ♪
00:38:27.416 --> 00:38:29.708
♪ But there's one thing
I know for sure, girl ♪
00:38:29.791 --> 00:38:31.625
♪ I don't give a damn ♪
00:38:31.958 --> 00:38:33.625
♪ For the same old played out scenes ♪
00:38:33.708 --> 00:38:37.750
♪ Baby, I don't give a damn
For just the in-betweens ♪
00:38:37.916 --> 00:38:40.000
♪ Honey, I want the heart
I want the soul ♪
00:38:40.083 --> 00:38:42.708
♪ I want control right now ♪
00:38:43.083 --> 00:38:45.208
♪ You better listen to me, baby ♪
00:38:45.291 --> 00:38:49.291
♪ Talk about a dream
Try to make it real ♪
00:38:49.375 --> 00:38:53.166
♪ You wake up in the night
With a fear so real ♪
00:38:53.250 --> 00:38:54.958
♪ You spend your life waiting ♪
00:38:55.041 --> 00:38:58.541
♪ For a moment that just don't come ♪
00:38:58.708 --> 00:39:01.125
♪ Well, don't waste your time waiting ♪
00:39:01.208 --> 00:39:04.375
♪ Badlands, you gotta live it every day ♪
00:39:04.458 --> 00:39:08.791
♪ Let the broken hearts stand
As the price you've gotta pay ♪
00:39:08.875 --> 00:39:10.958
♪ We'll keep movin' till it's understood ♪
00:39:11.041 --> 00:39:14.250
♪ And these badlands
Start treating us good... ♪
00:39:15.458 --> 00:39:17.416
-Sorry.
-Yeah.
00:39:21.041 --> 00:39:23.625
[Emma] You got yourself
a girlfriend yet? [giggling]
00:39:26.500 --> 00:39:27.500
[Javed exhales]
00:39:31.291 --> 00:39:33.458
-What are you doing with those?
-Help yourself.
00:39:36.166 --> 00:39:37.166
[Javed exhales]
00:39:40.750 --> 00:39:43.375
You should try telesales.
You could be anyone on the phone.
00:39:43.458 --> 00:39:45.208
They don't know
if you're Tom, Dick or Ali.
00:39:45.375 --> 00:39:48.041
I'll try anything.
My dad really needs cash.
00:39:48.125 --> 00:39:49.875
Do you know what you want?
00:39:50.541 --> 00:39:52.375
-Tea.
-How do you like it?
00:39:52.458 --> 00:39:53.875
Sweet, like my girls.
00:39:58.291 --> 00:39:59.541
[scoffs]
00:40:02.083 --> 00:40:04.791
Do you know what I think helped Bruce
deal with a shitty life?
00:40:05.708 --> 00:40:06.916
Girls.
00:40:07.250 --> 00:40:09.500
-Girls were his salvation.
-Oh, yeah.
00:40:09.875 --> 00:40:11.791
We all need that kind of salvation.
00:40:11.875 --> 00:40:13.625
[both laugh]
00:40:14.458 --> 00:40:16.666
I wish I could write about girls
like Bruce does.
00:40:17.041 --> 00:40:19.083
Listen, life ain't no Springsteen song.
00:40:19.458 --> 00:40:21.583
If we end up with a girl
with less facial hair than Chewbacca,
00:40:21.666 --> 00:40:23.541
-we'll have done well, yeah?
-[laughs]
00:40:25.750 --> 00:40:27.708
Hey, er... I got you this.
00:40:28.791 --> 00:40:29.875
Go on. Move.
00:40:33.208 --> 00:40:34.750
There's loads of seats free.
00:40:34.833 --> 00:40:36.500
Well, this is our table now.
00:40:36.875 --> 00:40:39.666
Or do we need to move you, Pakis?
00:40:39.750 --> 00:40:40.791
[boy in red whistles] Get up.
00:40:42.208 --> 00:40:43.458
-[whistling]
-Come on.
00:40:43.833 --> 00:40:46.041
Off you go. Quickly.
00:40:47.500 --> 00:40:49.291
-Good boy.
-Thank you very much. Move.
00:40:50.500 --> 00:40:52.791
Oi, oi, oi. Nah, nah, nah.
Move over there, mate.
00:40:52.875 --> 00:40:55.666
I can still bloody smell you
from here, all right?
00:40:55.750 --> 00:40:57.208
[sniggering]
00:40:57.291 --> 00:41:00.125
Go on, move. Quickly. Thank you.
00:41:01.875 --> 00:41:03.916
[indistinct talking]
00:41:07.208 --> 00:41:08.666
We should have said something.
00:41:09.791 --> 00:41:11.125
We can't just take it.
00:41:12.875 --> 00:41:13.916
Where's the tape?
00:41:15.791 --> 00:41:18.916
-I don't care if I told you it before.
-No, you carry on, mate.
00:41:24.875 --> 00:41:26.083
What are you doing, mate?
00:41:26.583 --> 00:41:29.208
Is this a... Is this a special Paki film?
00:41:29.291 --> 00:41:30.416
-[boy sniggering]
-Huh?
00:41:30.833 --> 00:41:33.291
[mocking fake accent]
Is this the number one Paki film?
00:41:33.375 --> 00:41:34.333
Give it back.
00:41:34.416 --> 00:41:36.375
Bruce Springsteen? Eh?
He doesn't sound like a Paki, does he?
00:41:37.916 --> 00:41:40.250
-Oi.
-For the ones who had a notion
00:41:40.333 --> 00:41:42.125
-A notion deep inside
-[Springsteen song comes on in background]
00:41:42.208 --> 00:41:44.750
That it ain't no sin
To be glad you're alive
00:41:45.083 --> 00:41:47.708
[both] I wanna find one face
That ain't looking through me
00:41:48.000 --> 00:41:51.208
I wanna find one place
I wanna spit in the face of these
00:41:51.500 --> 00:41:54.500
[both sing along]
♪ Badlands, you gotta live it every day ♪
00:41:54.583 --> 00:41:57.458
♪ Let the broken hearts stand
Letting him spit in my face? ♪
00:41:57.541 --> 00:41:59.041
♪ As the price you gotta pay ♪
00:41:59.125 --> 00:42:00.750
♪ Keep moving till it's understood ♪
00:42:00.833 --> 00:42:04.958
♪ And these badlands
Start treating us good ♪
00:42:07.041 --> 00:42:08.708
♪ Badlands... ♪
00:42:11.000 --> 00:42:13.625
I mean, it's got the elegance
of Lady Diana
00:42:13.708 --> 00:42:17.333
and the earthy sensuality of Tina Turner.
And of course, there's not many women...
00:42:17.416 --> 00:42:20.041
I've been door to door
to every store in the Arndale.
00:42:21.041 --> 00:42:22.500
Do you reckon your dad
could give me a job?
00:42:22.583 --> 00:42:24.291
-Not dropping out, are you?
-No way.
00:42:24.708 --> 00:42:26.500
But my dad's been laid off.
00:42:28.416 --> 00:42:32.791
Dad, J's been looking for a Saturday job.
Can you help him out?
00:42:32.875 --> 00:42:35.041
I'm sorry, J. Business is down.
00:42:35.125 --> 00:42:36.166
I'll do anything.
00:42:37.125 --> 00:42:39.125
Lug boxes around,
put up the stall, clear it up.
00:42:39.708 --> 00:42:40.625
I'm really desperate.
00:42:41.208 --> 00:42:44.125
All right, start Saturday,
but I'm not paying you a lot. Eh?
00:42:44.791 --> 00:42:46.083
Now, what you got there?
00:42:46.708 --> 00:42:48.583
This guy is incredible.
00:42:49.750 --> 00:42:51.750
You've never heard lyrics like his.
00:42:53.458 --> 00:42:54.458
Is that Billy Joel?
00:42:55.000 --> 00:42:57.625
Billy Joel? You plonker. That is Bruce.
00:42:58.833 --> 00:43:01.333
God, you try and raise your kids right, J.
00:43:01.416 --> 00:43:02.791
I was there, son.
00:43:02.875 --> 00:43:05.458
1981, Wembley Arena.
Row T. The River Tour.
00:43:05.541 --> 00:43:08.041
Don't go writing me songs like him, J.
He's too...
00:43:08.416 --> 00:43:10.958
-Old school?
-No, American.
00:43:11.625 --> 00:43:13.166
Listen, I can't be dealing with all that
00:43:13.250 --> 00:43:16.083
you know,
"Born in the USA," stars and stripes shit.
00:43:16.458 --> 00:43:18.000
Surprised you're into it, mate.
00:43:18.083 --> 00:43:20.666
Actually, that song's
about the desperate plight
00:43:20.750 --> 00:43:23.583
of Vietnam veterans who were treated
really badly when they came home.
00:43:23.958 --> 00:43:25.625
-You tell him, son.
-[chuckles]
00:43:25.708 --> 00:43:29.458
♪ We'd go down to the river...
Yeah? ♪
00:43:30.000 --> 00:43:32.916
♪ And into the river we'd dive ♪
00:43:33.250 --> 00:43:39.083
♪ Whoa, down to the river we'd ride ♪
[laughs]
00:43:39.166 --> 00:43:40.458
-Got you.
-See you later.
00:43:40.541 --> 00:43:41.458
Saturday, mate.
00:43:41.541 --> 00:43:43.791
["Cover Me" playing]
00:43:48.375 --> 00:43:51.958
♪ The times are tough now
Just getting tougher ♪
00:43:52.041 --> 00:43:53.375
♪ This whole world is rough ♪
00:43:53.458 --> 00:43:56.083
-♪ It's just getting rougher ♪
-[Matt] Come on, mate. What you doing?
00:43:58.291 --> 00:44:00.666
♪ Come on, baby, cover me ♪
00:44:00.750 --> 00:44:02.416
You cannot be serious, mate.
00:44:03.333 --> 00:44:06.375
You can't sell clothes on the stall
dressed like that.
00:44:06.750 --> 00:44:08.083
Dressed like him.
00:44:09.625 --> 00:44:10.666
God!
00:44:11.291 --> 00:44:16.000
♪ Now promise me, baby
You won't let them find us ♪
00:44:16.083 --> 00:44:19.375
♪ Hold me in your arms
Let's let our love blind us ♪
00:44:19.458 --> 00:44:21.166
-♪ Cover me... ♪
-Hey, what's that?
00:44:23.041 --> 00:44:26.000
-University prospectus.
-Well, yeah, but it's in Manchester.
00:44:26.375 --> 00:44:28.000
It's got a brilliant English
and creative writing course.
00:44:28.833 --> 00:44:30.833
I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna be a writer.
00:44:31.666 --> 00:44:33.833
But your dad, he won't even
let you cross the road
00:44:33.916 --> 00:44:35.208
to come to mine for a party.
00:44:35.833 --> 00:44:39.041
You know Manchester's
200 fricking miles away, don't you?
00:44:39.125 --> 00:44:40.291
[turns music off]
00:44:41.750 --> 00:44:43.916
"Someday, man, I don't know when
00:44:44.458 --> 00:44:47.458
We're gonna get to that place
Where we really want to go
00:44:47.791 --> 00:44:49.000
We'll walk in the sun
00:44:49.875 --> 00:44:51.875
But till then, tramps like us...
00:44:52.291 --> 00:44:54.083
Baby, we were born to run."
00:44:55.208 --> 00:44:56.416
Did you write that?
00:44:57.083 --> 00:44:59.541
I've told you before,
your lyrics are rubbish, mate.
00:45:00.166 --> 00:45:01.166
That didn't even rhyme.
00:45:10.000 --> 00:45:11.541
-[Eliza] Do you want a Red Wedge?
-[girl] Fantastic.
00:45:11.625 --> 00:45:14.791
-[male vendor calling out]
-[Eliza] We've got a gig on Friday.
00:45:15.250 --> 00:45:16.125
Hey.
00:45:16.541 --> 00:45:19.041
Right, hold on to that for a minute, J.
00:45:19.125 --> 00:45:21.041
-[Eliza] Can I give you a leaflet, please?
-J.
00:45:21.125 --> 00:45:22.250
[Eliza] Free Nelson Mandela.
00:45:22.875 --> 00:45:24.208
["Thunder Road" playing]
00:45:24.541 --> 00:45:26.791
Javed. Wake up, mate.
00:45:27.208 --> 00:45:28.291
Right, important.
00:45:28.375 --> 00:45:30.250
As soon as you've hung it,
make sure there's no creases,
00:45:30.333 --> 00:45:32.916
and just hang it nice so people
can walk up to it and just have a go.
00:45:33.000 --> 00:45:36.333
Oh, look at that. The quality.
Look at how beautiful that is.
00:45:36.416 --> 00:45:39.708
[Eliza] Would you like a leaflet?
We've got a Red Wedge gig on Friday.
00:45:41.583 --> 00:45:43.041
[singing along to tape]
♪ The screen door slams ♪
00:45:44.166 --> 00:45:46.625
♪ Mary's dress waves ♪
00:45:47.041 --> 00:45:48.375
Red Wedge! Red Wedge!
00:45:48.750 --> 00:45:51.708
♪ Like a vision
She dances across the porch ♪
00:45:51.791 --> 00:45:53.833
♪ As the radio plays... ♪
00:45:54.125 --> 00:45:55.166
Javed.
00:45:55.250 --> 00:45:58.541
♪ Roy Orbison singing for the lonely ♪
00:45:58.625 --> 00:46:01.958
♪ Hey, that's me and I want you only ♪
00:46:02.250 --> 00:46:03.833
♪ Don't turn me home again ♪
00:46:03.916 --> 00:46:06.250
-♪ I just can't face myself... ♪
-Javed.
00:46:06.333 --> 00:46:08.458
♪ Alone again ♪
00:46:09.333 --> 00:46:13.958
♪ Don't run back inside, darling
You know just what I'm here for ♪
00:46:16.208 --> 00:46:18.958
♪ So you're scared
And you're thinking that maybe ♪
00:46:19.041 --> 00:46:22.416
♪ We ain't that young anymore ♪
00:46:22.791 --> 00:46:26.250
[both] ♪ Show a little faith
There's magic in the night ♪
00:46:26.541 --> 00:46:29.958
♪ You ain't a beauty
But, hey, you're all right ♪
00:46:31.291 --> 00:46:34.708
♪ Oh, and that's all right with me ♪
00:46:36.916 --> 00:46:40.541
♪ You can hide 'neath your covers
And study your pain ♪
00:46:40.625 --> 00:46:42.000
♪ Make crosses from your lovers ♪
00:46:42.083 --> 00:46:44.791
♪ Throw roses in the rain ♪
00:46:44.875 --> 00:46:47.083
♪ Waste your summer praying in vain ♪
00:46:47.166 --> 00:46:50.250
♪ For a savior to rise
From these streets ♪
00:46:50.833 --> 00:46:53.875
♪ Well, now, I'm no hero
That's understood ♪
00:46:54.166 --> 00:46:58.166
♪ All the redemption I can offer, girl
Is beneath this dirty hood ♪
00:46:58.458 --> 00:47:01.041
♪ With a chance to make it good somehow ♪
00:47:01.333 --> 00:47:03.875
♪ Hey, what else can we do now? ♪
00:47:03.958 --> 00:47:06.500
♪ Except roll down the window ♪
00:47:06.583 --> 00:47:09.333
♪ And let the wind blow back your hair ♪
00:47:11.583 --> 00:47:18.000
♪ Well, the night's busting open
These two lanes will take us anywhere ♪
00:47:18.250 --> 00:47:20.916
♪ We got one last chance to make it real ♪
00:47:21.791 --> 00:47:25.166
♪ To trade in these wings on some wheels ♪
00:47:25.833 --> 00:47:30.166
♪ Climb in back
Heaven's waiting down on the tracks... ♪
00:47:32.416 --> 00:47:35.208
[in Springsteen's voice]
♪ Oh-oh, come take my hand ♪
00:47:36.291 --> 00:47:40.708
♪ We're riding out tonight
To case the Promised Land ♪
00:47:41.375 --> 00:47:46.166
♪ Oh, Thunder Road
Oh, Thunder Road ♪
00:47:47.291 --> 00:47:51.166
♪ It's lying out there
Like a killer in the sun ♪
00:47:51.750 --> 00:47:55.958
♪ Hey, I know it's late
But we can make it if we run ♪
00:47:57.083 --> 00:48:00.791
♪ Oh, Thunder Road
Sit tight ♪
00:48:01.416 --> 00:48:02.708
♪ Take hold ♪
00:48:03.125 --> 00:48:05.750
-♪ Thunder Road... ♪
-[Eliza] Whoo!
00:48:05.833 --> 00:48:08.458
[Matt's father] That...
That's what you call real music,
00:48:08.833 --> 00:48:11.666
not the sort of shite
my son sits listening to in his room.
00:48:12.166 --> 00:48:15.000
Now, look, you're a clever boy.
Educate him.
00:48:15.083 --> 00:48:18.250
He's beyond help.
He thinks synths are the future.
00:48:18.458 --> 00:48:19.708
[both laugh]
00:48:22.416 --> 00:48:24.458
He's a handsome boy,
but he's not happy. Look at him.
00:48:24.541 --> 00:48:26.750
[Javed laughs]
00:48:26.833 --> 00:48:29.833
Oh, here we go.
Look, son, don't get the hump
00:48:29.916 --> 00:48:32.625
just because
your mate's got taste in music.
00:48:33.000 --> 00:48:34.791
[Matt]
Thanks for standing up for me, mate.
00:48:35.500 --> 00:48:37.291
Here, J, leave him.
00:48:37.375 --> 00:48:39.666
We got customers to serve. Come on.
00:48:40.333 --> 00:48:41.500
Now, then, ladies...
00:48:41.791 --> 00:48:44.000
-[knocking]
-[Javed] Matt.
00:48:52.500 --> 00:48:53.791
[urgent knocking]
00:48:53.875 --> 00:48:56.333
[Matt] Go away, Javed.
You've really pissed me off.
00:49:01.000 --> 00:49:03.375
["Darkness on the Edge of Town" playing]
00:49:11.750 --> 00:49:15.916
♪ Well, they're still racing
Out at the Trestles... ♪
00:49:17.666 --> 00:49:18.875
[Javed's father] What is this nonsense?
00:49:22.750 --> 00:49:24.500
What kind of economics is this?
00:49:24.750 --> 00:49:26.666
It's about the music business.
00:49:27.250 --> 00:49:29.416
Why do you have to listen
to music while studying?
00:49:29.500 --> 00:49:30.500
It's no good.
00:49:31.333 --> 00:49:33.916
Have you forgotten
why I want you to get an education?
00:49:36.166 --> 00:49:39.041
To broaden my mind, learn about the world,
00:49:39.375 --> 00:49:40.916
be inspired to make a difference?
00:49:41.541 --> 00:49:42.416
No.
00:49:43.083 --> 00:49:44.541
To get a good job,
00:49:44.875 --> 00:49:48.416
so you don't end up driving a taxi
like every other Pakistani in this town.
00:49:48.791 --> 00:49:52.791
Ever since you've been following
this American Jewish man, you've changed.
00:49:53.583 --> 00:49:56.166
-He's not Jewish.
-He's not Pakistani either.
00:49:56.875 --> 00:49:58.000
Promise me one thing.
00:49:58.333 --> 00:49:59.333
I want you to give
00:49:59.416 --> 00:50:03.500
all this haram nonsense up.
00:50:04.250 --> 00:50:05.458
Do it for me.
00:50:11.541 --> 00:50:13.208
Listen to me, beta.
00:50:13.666 --> 00:50:19.041
I'm not your typical Pakistani father
who says you must be a doctor.
00:50:19.125 --> 00:50:23.666
I'm saying lawyer,
accountant, estate agent.
00:50:23.750 --> 00:50:26.708
-I am giving you freedom, see?
-[music drowns his speech]
00:50:26.791 --> 00:50:31.291
♪ Till some day
They'll just cut it loose ♪
00:50:31.875 --> 00:50:36.416
♪ Cut it loose or let it drag 'em down ♪
00:50:37.250 --> 00:50:43.083
♪ Where no one asks any questions
Or looks too long in your face ♪
00:50:44.416 --> 00:50:48.375
♪ In the darkness on the edge of town ♪
00:50:49.958 --> 00:50:55.458
♪ In the darkness on the edge of town ♪
00:50:57.625 --> 00:50:59.250
Congratulations.
00:50:59.666 --> 00:51:01.583
Look, you got your name in the paper.
00:51:02.916 --> 00:51:04.291
They spelt my name wrong.
00:51:07.250 --> 00:51:09.416
[sarcastically] You could just
change your name to Jared.
00:51:09.875 --> 00:51:10.916
[Javed chuckles]
00:51:15.791 --> 00:51:17.166
Do you fancy some lunch?
00:51:17.375 --> 00:51:18.375
[pop songs playing over radio]
00:51:18.458 --> 00:51:19.916
[Javed] I've never seen anyone
so committed.
00:51:20.000 --> 00:51:21.791
I always see you handing out flyers.
00:51:21.875 --> 00:51:24.208
[indistinct chatter]
00:51:24.291 --> 00:51:25.291
[Eliza] Miss Clay was right.
00:51:25.708 --> 00:51:28.416
It is hard getting students
interested in politics.
00:51:29.958 --> 00:51:32.916
So, are you gonna help me with these
or what?
00:51:33.458 --> 00:51:35.666
We don't want that witch
winning a fourth election.
00:51:39.625 --> 00:51:41.000
If I hand those out,
00:51:42.500 --> 00:51:44.208
will you go out with me?
00:51:49.000 --> 00:51:50.000
Yes.
00:51:50.583 --> 00:51:53.416
But... I get to pick where we're going.
00:51:56.708 --> 00:52:00.125
[singer in distance] ♪ Whoo! R-A-C-I-S-T ♪
00:52:00.208 --> 00:52:03.833
♪ F-A-S-C-I-S-T... ♪
00:52:03.916 --> 00:52:07.041
[Eliza] Wasn't that great?
I love a good anti-fascist gig.
00:52:07.291 --> 00:52:08.791
How come you're so political, then?
00:52:09.375 --> 00:52:12.083
Um... My parents, I guess.
00:52:12.416 --> 00:52:14.708
So, what, they're activists?
00:52:14.791 --> 00:52:16.041
Uh, no.
00:52:16.375 --> 00:52:19.875
They are "no society" Tory traitors.
00:52:20.666 --> 00:52:21.875
And I thought mine were bad.
00:52:22.250 --> 00:52:24.458
[Eliza] Someone in our family
has to have principles.
00:52:25.916 --> 00:52:27.750
I don't get on much with my dad either.
00:52:28.208 --> 00:52:30.500
I don't really get on
with anyone in my family.
00:52:31.041 --> 00:52:32.875
Except my sister, Shazia.
00:52:33.666 --> 00:52:35.125
Well, it's good to not fit in.
00:52:35.208 --> 00:52:36.833
If you did,
you'd never want to leave home.
00:52:38.541 --> 00:52:39.708
I've applied to Manchester.
00:52:40.416 --> 00:52:41.625
Cause of the Smiths?
00:52:41.708 --> 00:52:44.041
Cause it's four hours from Luton.
00:52:46.708 --> 00:52:48.458
I'm not sure if I'll be able to go.
00:52:49.333 --> 00:52:50.500
My dad's on the dole,
00:52:50.583 --> 00:52:51.916
goes to the job center
every day in his suit.
00:52:52.833 --> 00:52:55.791
I kind of feel selfish
thinking about going off to uni
00:52:55.875 --> 00:52:57.333
when he'll be struggling at home.
00:52:58.916 --> 00:53:00.500
Well, you can't live your life
for your dad.
00:53:01.875 --> 00:53:03.791
You don't know many Pakistanis, do you?
00:53:04.875 --> 00:53:06.125
We only live for our parents.
00:53:06.583 --> 00:53:09.000
You lot all go off and leave home.
00:53:09.375 --> 00:53:11.458
-We do the opposite.
-[laughs]
00:53:12.208 --> 00:53:13.708
Talking of which,
I should probably get going.
00:53:14.916 --> 00:53:15.875
Bye.
00:53:18.000 --> 00:53:18.875
[play button clicks]
00:53:18.958 --> 00:53:21.916
So... that's the end of our first date?
00:53:25.500 --> 00:53:26.625
I don't wanna go.
00:53:28.541 --> 00:53:32.375
♪ You want it, you take it,
You pay the price... ♪
00:53:32.458 --> 00:53:35.625
"You want it, you take it,
you pay the price."
00:53:37.291 --> 00:53:38.625
What does that mean?
00:53:40.375 --> 00:53:41.625
Bruce Springsteen.
00:53:42.791 --> 00:53:44.791
You do know Ronald Reagan
listens to him, right?
00:53:44.875 --> 00:53:47.291
[Javed laughs] He's incredible.
00:53:47.833 --> 00:53:49.750
Political, compassionate.
00:53:50.250 --> 00:53:51.625
Just listen to the words.
00:53:52.666 --> 00:53:56.708
♪ Everybody's got a hunger
A hunger they can't resist ♪
00:53:56.791 --> 00:54:00.583
♪ There's so much that you want
You deserve much more than this ♪
00:54:01.375 --> 00:54:03.166
[Javed singing along]
♪ Well, if dreams came true ♪
00:54:03.250 --> 00:54:05.041
♪ Oh, wouldn't that be nice? ♪
00:54:05.583 --> 00:54:09.500
♪ But this ain't no dream
We're living through tonight ♪
00:54:09.583 --> 00:54:13.250
♪ Girl, you want it, you take it,
You pay the price ♪
00:54:13.333 --> 00:54:15.750
I like it. But what does it mean?
00:54:17.750 --> 00:54:19.125
It means I'm staying.
00:54:22.041 --> 00:54:26.583
♪ Baby, tie your hair back
In a long white bow ♪
00:54:27.000 --> 00:54:31.083
♪ Meet me in the fields
Out behind the dynamo ♪
00:54:31.166 --> 00:54:35.416
♪ You hear their voices
Telling you not to go ♪
00:54:35.500 --> 00:54:39.250
♪ They've made their choices
And they'll never know ♪
00:54:39.333 --> 00:54:43.208
♪ What it means to steal
To cheat, to lie ♪
00:54:43.291 --> 00:54:45.416
♪ What it's like to live and die ♪
00:54:45.500 --> 00:54:49.916
♪ To prove it all night
Prove it all night ♪
00:54:50.000 --> 00:54:53.583
♪ Girl, there's nothing else
That we can do ♪
00:54:53.666 --> 00:54:57.875
♪ So prove it all night
Prove it all night ♪
00:54:57.958 --> 00:55:01.625
♪ And, girl
I'll prove it all night for you ♪
00:55:02.041 --> 00:55:06.541
♪ I'll prove it all night
I'll prove it all night... ♪
00:55:10.000 --> 00:55:12.875
[Javed]
In my dreams, I am holding you tight
00:55:13.833 --> 00:55:17.375
You are all I ever wanted
Such a magical sight
00:55:18.250 --> 00:55:21.500
I feel a buzz of electricity
From my feet to fingertips
00:55:21.583 --> 00:55:24.750
When I try to imagine
Kissing your beautiful lips
00:55:25.208 --> 00:55:28.583
You light up my life
Give me a reason for being born
00:55:28.666 --> 00:55:31.041
A flash of lightning in a midnight storm
00:55:31.333 --> 00:55:34.000
A gust of wind that lifts me off my feet
00:55:34.791 --> 00:55:37.125
A summer ray that radiates heat
00:55:37.666 --> 00:55:40.125
Every minute I'm with you feels divine
00:55:40.666 --> 00:55:42.833
And makes me wish you could be mine
00:55:42.916 --> 00:55:43.875
[chuckling]
00:55:45.666 --> 00:55:46.791
[Roops] You kissed her.
00:55:47.250 --> 00:55:48.916
You kissed her. Yeah!
00:55:49.000 --> 00:55:50.708
[both laugh]
00:55:51.916 --> 00:55:52.750
But wait.
00:55:53.375 --> 00:55:55.000
Is... Is she a Bruce fan?
00:55:55.083 --> 00:55:57.458
Not yet but I'm working on it.
00:55:57.541 --> 00:56:00.083
There are 600 people
like Eliza in this college
00:56:00.166 --> 00:56:01.875
who know nothing about the real Bruce.
00:56:02.166 --> 00:56:05.125
We have to do something about that.
Come on.
00:56:05.375 --> 00:56:07.458
-[pop music playing in background]
-You want a radio show?
00:56:08.083 --> 00:56:09.000
Yes.
00:56:10.416 --> 00:56:12.375
We have an Asian music show already, so...
00:56:12.458 --> 00:56:13.833
We don't wanna do an Asian show.
00:56:13.916 --> 00:56:15.083
What? Just cause we're a couple of Pakis,
00:56:15.166 --> 00:56:16.958
you think we'd be asking
to play more Bhangra?
00:56:17.041 --> 00:56:18.000
[radio station worker chuckles]
00:56:18.250 --> 00:56:20.041
So, what do you want?
00:56:20.375 --> 00:56:23.000
A show that plays only Bruce Springsteen.
00:56:23.416 --> 00:56:26.041
Nothing but Springsteen? That's your idea?
00:56:26.416 --> 00:56:29.000
Bruce has a lot to say
to students in this college.
00:56:29.250 --> 00:56:32.208
How will they know there's something
better out there if they don't hear it?
00:56:36.125 --> 00:56:38.208
Look at the calendar over there,
the Cutting Crew one.
00:56:38.916 --> 00:56:41.250
[radio station MC]
Can you see what year it is?
00:56:41.750 --> 00:56:43.416
It's 1987.
00:56:43.750 --> 00:56:47.458
My job is to play music that
the students will connect to, yeah?
00:56:47.541 --> 00:56:50.166
That means Bros. That means Curiosity.
00:56:50.250 --> 00:56:53.375
And, yes, that even means Debbie Gibson.
00:56:54.041 --> 00:56:57.541
But Springsteen...
he's more what your dad listens to.
00:56:58.208 --> 00:56:59.125
Not my dad.
00:56:59.833 --> 00:57:01.833
[chatter]
00:57:04.125 --> 00:57:05.208
-Hey.
-Hey.
00:57:05.291 --> 00:57:06.666
-All right?
-Yeah.
00:57:07.666 --> 00:57:09.750
Kevin, move up.
00:57:12.000 --> 00:57:13.041
-Hi.
-Hey.
00:57:15.708 --> 00:57:17.625
I liked my poem this morning.
00:57:18.250 --> 00:57:19.291
I couldn't sleep.
00:57:20.541 --> 00:57:22.291
Was it another gem from Bruce?
00:57:22.625 --> 00:57:24.750
No. It's mine.
00:57:25.791 --> 00:57:27.083
You wrote that for me?
00:57:36.041 --> 00:57:39.833
Javed... your article on how
Springsteen inspires you...
00:57:39.916 --> 00:57:41.041
Too much adulation?
00:57:42.041 --> 00:57:44.458
It was personal, passionate.
00:57:44.541 --> 00:57:46.333
I could hear you shouting off the page.
00:57:47.250 --> 00:57:49.041
I have a friend at the Herald.
00:57:49.583 --> 00:57:50.791
I could contact her,
00:57:51.166 --> 00:57:53.500
see if she might be able to find you
some work experience over there.
00:57:54.666 --> 00:57:55.875
[gasps]
00:57:56.041 --> 00:57:57.750
Right, Return Of The Native.
00:57:57.833 --> 00:58:00.875
Eustacia Vye: victim or villain?
00:58:02.875 --> 00:58:05.958
[school bell ringing]
00:58:07.750 --> 00:58:09.333
-[bell stops ringing]
-[Javed breathing heavily]
00:58:19.208 --> 00:58:20.708
[Javed breathing heavily]
00:58:20.791 --> 00:58:22.250
[needle crackling on record]
00:58:22.333 --> 00:58:24.625
["Born to Run" playing]
00:58:36.125 --> 00:58:38.458
[they sing along]
♪ In the day we sweat it out ♪
00:58:38.541 --> 00:58:41.875
♪ On the streets
Of a runaway American dream ♪
00:58:42.166 --> 00:58:43.041
What's going on?
00:58:43.125 --> 00:58:46.250
♪ At night we ride through
The mansions of glory ♪
00:58:46.333 --> 00:58:48.750
♪ In suicide machines ♪
00:58:49.708 --> 00:58:52.541
♪ Sprung from cages out on Highway 9 ♪
00:58:52.625 --> 00:58:54.333
♪ Chrome-wheeled, fuel-injected ♪
00:58:54.416 --> 00:58:56.083
♪ And steppin' out over the line ♪
00:58:56.166 --> 00:58:57.875
Where were you? Where were you?
Why is that playing?
00:58:58.375 --> 00:59:02.291
♪ Oh Baby, this town rips the bones
From your back ♪
00:59:02.625 --> 00:59:05.250
♪ It's a death trap, it's a suicide rap ♪
00:59:05.708 --> 00:59:08.083
♪ We gotta get out while we're young... ♪
00:59:08.166 --> 00:59:10.583
-What you doing?
-♪ Cause tramps like us ♪
00:59:11.125 --> 00:59:13.500
♪ Baby, we were born to run ♪
00:59:15.625 --> 00:59:18.000
Get out of here! Go on! Get off my pitch!
00:59:19.625 --> 00:59:21.333
Calm down. Calm down.
00:59:25.250 --> 00:59:28.166
♪ Wendy, let me in,
I wanna be your friend ♪
00:59:28.250 --> 00:59:31.375
♪ I wanna guard your dreams and visions ♪
00:59:31.666 --> 00:59:34.583
♪ Just wrap your legs
Round these velvet rims ♪
00:59:34.666 --> 00:59:38.125
♪ And strap your hands 'cross my engines ♪
00:59:38.208 --> 00:59:42.916
♪ Together we could break this trap
We'll run till we drop ♪
00:59:43.500 --> 00:59:46.333
♪ Baby, we'll never go back ♪
00:59:46.958 --> 00:59:51.125
♪ Oh-oh
Will you walk with me out on the wire? ♪
00:59:51.208 --> 00:59:54.333
♪ Cause, baby
I'm just a scared and lonely rider ♪
00:59:54.416 --> 00:59:57.458
♪ But I gotta know how it feels ♪
00:59:57.625 --> 00:59:59.250
♪ I wanna know if love is wild ♪
00:59:59.333 --> 01:00:02.833
♪ Babe, I wanna know if love is real ♪
01:00:06.958 --> 01:00:09.458
♪ Oh, can you show me? ♪
01:00:14.208 --> 01:00:17.000
[saxophone solo]
01:00:33.791 --> 01:00:35.416
♪ Beyond the Palace ♪
01:00:35.500 --> 01:00:39.791
♪ Hemi-powered drones
Scream down the boulevard ♪
01:00:40.208 --> 01:00:43.541
Hey! Move aside!
01:00:43.625 --> 01:00:46.541
♪ And the boys try to look so hard ♪
01:00:47.041 --> 01:00:49.541
♪ The amusement park rises bold
And stark ♪
01:00:50.166 --> 01:00:52.708
♪ Kids are huddled on the beach
In a mist ♪
01:00:53.458 --> 01:00:56.583
♪ I wanna die with you, Wendy,
On the street tonight ♪
01:00:56.666 --> 01:00:59.791
♪ In an everlasting kiss ♪
01:01:02.166 --> 01:01:03.625
[woman] I'll tell your mother!
01:01:25.625 --> 01:01:27.166
[all] One, two, three, four!
01:01:27.250 --> 01:01:30.208
♪ The highway's jammed
With broken heroes ♪
01:01:30.291 --> 01:01:32.833
♪ On a last-chance power drive ♪
01:01:33.208 --> 01:01:36.291
♪ Everybody's out on the run tonight ♪
01:01:36.375 --> 01:01:39.541
♪ But there's no place left to hide ♪
01:01:40.250 --> 01:01:43.416
♪ Together, Wendy
We can live with the sadness ♪
01:01:43.500 --> 01:01:48.250
♪ I'll love you
With all the madness in my soul ♪
01:01:49.041 --> 01:01:50.250
♪ Oh ♪
01:01:50.333 --> 01:01:53.125
♪ Someday, girl, I don't know when ♪
01:01:53.208 --> 01:01:57.291
♪ We're gonna get to that place
Where we really wanna go ♪
01:01:57.375 --> 01:01:59.375
♪ And we'll walk in the sun ♪
01:01:59.458 --> 01:02:01.500
♪ But till then tramps like us ♪
01:02:02.125 --> 01:02:06.083
♪ Baby, we were born to run ♪
01:02:06.166 --> 01:02:08.375
♪ Oh, honey, tramps like us ♪
01:02:08.458 --> 01:02:10.541
♪ Baby, we were born to run ♪
01:02:10.625 --> 01:02:12.708
Get away from here. Go home
01:02:13.208 --> 01:02:14.916
♪ Tramps like us ♪
01:02:15.000 --> 01:02:18.916
♪ Baby, we were born to run ♪
01:02:19.666 --> 01:02:22.125
♪ Oh, oh-oh-oh ♪
01:02:23.166 --> 01:02:25.083
♪ Ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh ♪
01:02:25.166 --> 01:02:27.791
♪ Oh, ah-oh, oh-oh-oh ♪
01:02:27.875 --> 01:02:31.000
♪ Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh-oh ♪
01:02:31.750 --> 01:02:33.666
[reporter] Tensions are running high
in Bury Park
01:02:33.750 --> 01:02:36.083
where a pig's head was found
hanging from the minaret here
01:02:36.166 --> 01:02:37.500
at Luton Mosque.
01:02:37.583 --> 01:02:40.416
Witnesses say two men were seen
climbing up the minaret this morning
01:02:40.500 --> 01:02:43.083
to place the pig's head
before morning prayer.
01:02:43.166 --> 01:02:44.041
-[reporter continues] Understandably,
-[Eliza] I should go.
01:02:44.125 --> 01:02:45.458
-the community are up in arms
-[Eliza] Sorry.
01:02:45.541 --> 01:02:47.916
and the police are doing
all they can to support them
01:02:48.166 --> 01:02:50.791
in light of this shocking event.
01:02:50.875 --> 01:02:53.916
This incident comes the same day
as the extreme right National Front
01:02:54.000 --> 01:02:57.041
has announced their plan for a march
through the streets of Luton.
01:02:57.125 --> 01:02:58.916
No date for the march
has been confirmed yet,
01:02:59.000 --> 01:03:01.041
but all police leave has been cancelled.
01:03:02.416 --> 01:03:03.458
[woman] Well, I hope we're all hungry.
01:03:04.458 --> 01:03:07.333
I had hoped Eliza might change for dinner
but can't have it all.
01:03:07.416 --> 01:03:09.041
-Mum, stop fussing.
-[father] Right... Ah.
01:03:09.125 --> 01:03:10.958
-Garlic bread.
-Oh, lovely.
01:03:11.041 --> 01:03:12.500
-Here we all are.
-Good.
01:03:12.583 --> 01:03:13.500
Lovely.
01:03:14.583 --> 01:03:15.541
So where shall we sit, darling?
01:03:15.625 --> 01:03:19.166
Um, well, why don't I go at the head here?
01:03:19.250 --> 01:03:20.958
-And, Francis, you go there.
-I'll pop here.
01:03:21.041 --> 01:03:24.250
Yes, that's it.
And then you go either side.
01:03:24.333 --> 01:03:27.500
Sit yourself down.
I'll just place the garlic bread...
01:03:27.583 --> 01:03:28.458
-On the table.
-...here.
01:03:28.541 --> 01:03:31.708
-Lovely.
-Oh, it is so lovely to meet you.
01:03:31.791 --> 01:03:33.750
Eliza's very picky on who she brings home.
01:03:33.833 --> 01:03:35.916
Yes, she picks the boys
01:03:36.000 --> 01:03:38.958
she thinks we're going to find
the most shocking.
01:03:39.041 --> 01:03:41.333
-[parents chuckle]
-[father] Politics.
01:03:41.916 --> 01:03:44.291
It's very personal for our Eliza.
Isn't it, Princess?
01:03:44.375 --> 01:03:46.500
The only thing shocking,
Dad, is your bigotry
01:03:46.583 --> 01:03:49.208
towards anybody who isn't white,
middle-class and true blue.
01:03:49.541 --> 01:03:51.125
You'll have to forgive Eliza.
01:03:51.208 --> 01:03:53.625
Sometimes I'm not sure
how we raised such a firebrand.
01:03:55.000 --> 01:03:57.000
Do you remember the one
with the eyeliner and the daisies?
01:03:57.083 --> 01:03:58.333
[parents chuckling]
01:03:58.416 --> 01:04:00.125
He so wanted to be Morrissey.
01:04:00.708 --> 01:04:03.583
Then there was the colored fellow
with the dreadlocks.
01:04:03.666 --> 01:04:05.958
-No one says "colored" anymore, Dad.
-No?
01:04:06.750 --> 01:04:09.083
With Eliza,
it's the more provocative the better.
01:04:09.166 --> 01:04:11.500
-[father mutters in agreement]
-Well, what's provocative about Javed?
01:04:16.791 --> 01:04:17.875
[mother] Hmm.
01:04:19.750 --> 01:04:22.166
Javed doesn't drink. He's a Muslim.
01:04:22.666 --> 01:04:24.166
It's against their religion, Dad.
01:04:27.583 --> 01:04:29.375
Well, have a little bit, see how you go.
01:04:31.458 --> 01:04:32.750
We won't tell anyone if you don't.
01:04:33.375 --> 01:04:34.875
-[parents chuckle]
-[father] Right.
01:04:37.541 --> 01:04:39.541
[principal]
You broke into the college radio station,
01:04:39.625 --> 01:04:42.083
and you played a record of your choice.
01:04:42.541 --> 01:04:43.791
We're very sorry, Miss.
01:04:43.875 --> 01:04:45.958
You see my problem, don't you?
01:04:46.041 --> 01:04:49.541
Please don't expel us. I need my A levels.
01:04:50.833 --> 01:04:53.583
Yeah... Yeah, we're very sorry, Miss.
01:04:55.041 --> 01:04:58.041
So, what I'm going to do...
01:04:59.625 --> 01:05:03.750
You will promise...
promise, never to do it again,
01:05:04.458 --> 01:05:06.250
and that, I hope, will be the end of that.
01:05:08.958 --> 01:05:10.166
Is that it?
01:05:11.083 --> 01:05:14.000
They vandalized my studio!
They scratched my Tiffany record!
01:05:14.083 --> 01:05:16.458
Oh, please, Colin. Tiffany?
01:05:16.541 --> 01:05:18.166
Even I know Tiffany's not all that.
01:05:18.416 --> 01:05:19.916
[phone rings]
01:05:20.916 --> 01:05:23.000
Judith Anderson's mobile telephone.
01:05:23.291 --> 01:05:24.958
OK. Right, run along. Yes, hello.
01:05:25.041 --> 01:05:28.000
This is my mobile telephone.
Could you call on the office line?
01:05:28.083 --> 01:05:29.833
It just turns out
this is just much too expensive.
01:05:29.916 --> 01:05:31.000
[whispering] Bruce!
01:05:33.458 --> 01:05:35.458
-[folk music plays]
-♪ Oh, protector ♪
01:05:35.541 --> 01:05:38.625
♪ Of the world ♪
01:05:38.708 --> 01:05:43.458
♪ Please listen to
my painful lamentations ♪
01:05:43.541 --> 01:05:47.833
♪ Please listen to
my painful lamentations ♪
01:05:51.666 --> 01:05:56.625
♪ The rain have turned into fire ♪
01:05:56.708 --> 01:06:01.500
♪ And the flowers into embers ♪
01:06:04.333 --> 01:06:08.958
♪ The beautiful night has turned
into snake ♪
01:06:09.458 --> 01:06:13.208
♪ And the stars into stone ♪
01:06:13.500 --> 01:06:17.875
♪ I have lost all the support ♪
01:06:18.541 --> 01:06:24.000
♪ Take this life away from me ♪
01:06:26.541 --> 01:06:30.958
♪ O provider of my life ♪
01:06:31.500 --> 01:06:34.958
♪ Oh, protector of the world ♪
01:06:41.625 --> 01:06:43.916
[soundtrack drowns speech]
01:06:56.625 --> 01:06:59.083
[man] I'm sorry, mate.
I ain't got no change.
01:07:14.250 --> 01:07:16.208
I've been offered a job at the Herald
for the holidays.
01:07:17.000 --> 01:07:18.375
How much will they pay you?
01:07:18.541 --> 01:07:21.125
They won't. It's work experience.
01:07:22.250 --> 01:07:24.041
They want you to work for no money?
01:07:24.333 --> 01:07:27.458
The deputy editor thinks I can write.
It's a great opportunity.
01:07:29.250 --> 01:07:30.583
How is it a great opportunity
01:07:30.875 --> 01:07:33.458
when they're making you work
and not giving you any money?
01:07:33.875 --> 01:07:36.750
Dad, I want to be a writer.
01:07:37.208 --> 01:07:39.291
-Writing isn't a job.
-It can be.
01:07:39.375 --> 01:07:41.583
Name me one Pakistani writer. Just one.
01:07:43.291 --> 01:07:46.958
Writing is for English people...
with rich parents.
01:07:47.041 --> 01:07:49.250
But this is the chance
to do something I really want to do.
01:07:49.583 --> 01:07:52.333
"I"? What is this "I"?
01:07:52.416 --> 01:07:53.833
Everyone else is making money...
01:07:54.166 --> 01:07:57.500
Mum, Yasmeen, Shazia.
The only one who isn't is you.
01:07:59.375 --> 01:08:00.875
I don't wanna go and be an estate agent
01:08:00.958 --> 01:08:03.333
when I've got the chance
to do something I really want to do.
01:08:03.666 --> 01:08:05.375
-Get out.
-What?
01:08:06.041 --> 01:08:08.625
You will not talk to your father
like this. Get out.
01:08:15.291 --> 01:08:16.250
[engine starts]
01:08:16.541 --> 01:08:19.333
The biggest mistake I made
was coming to this country.
01:08:20.833 --> 01:08:22.791
I didn't ask you to come here!
01:08:31.625 --> 01:08:32.708
[horn honks]
01:08:33.750 --> 01:08:35.791
[pop rock music on car stereo]
01:08:38.875 --> 01:08:42.500
-[driver] There we go.
-[Matt] Nice one. Cheers, boys.
01:08:42.833 --> 01:08:43.791
[Matt grunts]
01:08:44.041 --> 01:08:45.166
-[Matt] Come on, then.
-[bandmate] All right.
01:08:45.666 --> 01:08:46.666
[Matt] I'll see you later.
01:08:46.750 --> 01:08:48.958
You, mate,
need to start practicing, seriously.
01:08:49.041 --> 01:08:51.083
-Because we're all putting the work in.
-[Javed] Matt.
01:08:51.166 --> 01:08:52.875
-[Matt] Hey!
-I was good. Come on.
01:08:53.250 --> 01:08:54.708
-Matt.
-[Matt] Listen, seriously...
01:08:54.791 --> 01:08:55.666
[bandmate] That was all right, innit?
01:08:56.000 --> 01:08:56.833
[Matt] What time you's coming round
tomorrow?
01:08:56.916 --> 01:08:58.708
-Matt!
-[bandmate] All right. See you there, man.
01:08:59.833 --> 01:09:01.083
[bandmate] Yeah, mate, nice one.
01:09:01.166 --> 01:09:02.791
Just had band practice?
01:09:04.333 --> 01:09:07.416
Look... I'm sorry.
01:09:08.583 --> 01:09:11.250
I didn't mean to upset you.
Can we just forget it and move on?
01:09:16.583 --> 01:09:17.500
Let's forget
01:09:18.583 --> 01:09:21.375
who stood up for you at school
when you were called a dirty Paki.
01:09:23.000 --> 01:09:27.291
Let's forget who's been trying
their hardest to get you a girl,
01:09:27.708 --> 01:09:29.041
get you a life.
01:09:30.791 --> 01:09:32.666
And now you think you're it
with this college
01:09:33.291 --> 01:09:35.250
and your Bruce philosophies on life.
01:09:36.666 --> 01:09:39.291
You think you can shit all over me.
01:09:39.958 --> 01:09:42.083
Well, if you strip that away,
you're still sad Javed,
01:09:43.250 --> 01:09:45.708
whose dad picks on him
just like mine does on me.
01:09:50.791 --> 01:09:52.083
See you later, boys.
01:09:52.500 --> 01:09:55.000
-Right, see you later, Matt.
-Take care, mate.
01:09:55.083 --> 01:09:55.916
Get in.
01:10:02.166 --> 01:10:04.041
[car engine starts]
01:10:08.166 --> 01:10:09.583
I suppose you heard that?
01:10:14.041 --> 01:10:16.625
All I'm trying to do
is stand up for myself,
01:10:16.708 --> 01:10:19.625
stop doing what others want
and do what I want for a change.
01:10:21.000 --> 01:10:23.708
Good friends deserve to be listened to.
01:10:41.833 --> 01:10:44.000
[soft acoustic music plays]
01:10:44.333 --> 01:10:46.250
[keys jangling]
01:10:53.166 --> 01:10:54.333
[knocks at door]
01:11:00.583 --> 01:11:01.541
I'm sorry.
01:11:02.708 --> 01:11:05.666
You're right. I have been up myself.
01:11:05.750 --> 01:11:08.708
Your music is just as great
cause it speaks to you and...
01:11:08.791 --> 01:11:10.416
-You're a wanker.
-I know.
01:11:12.000 --> 01:11:12.875
Sorry.
01:11:16.291 --> 01:11:18.125
About the finding me a girl bit...
01:11:21.916 --> 01:11:23.541
At least you don't have to help me
with that.
01:11:26.125 --> 01:11:27.041
What?
01:11:27.708 --> 01:11:30.125
-["Hungry Heart" playing]
-You got a girlfriend?
01:11:30.833 --> 01:11:32.666
And you didn't even bloody tell me!
01:11:35.541 --> 01:11:38.625
[laughs] You jammy little sod.
01:11:39.875 --> 01:11:43.916
Well, at least I can finally expect
some decent bloody lyrics from you.
01:11:47.000 --> 01:11:50.083
♪ Got a wife and kids in Baltimore, Jack ♪
01:11:50.166 --> 01:11:54.291
♪ I went out for a ride
And I never went back ♪
01:11:55.666 --> 01:11:58.833
♪ Like a river
That don't know where it's flowing... ♪
01:11:59.250 --> 01:12:00.333
Everyone's out.
01:12:01.708 --> 01:12:03.791
So it's just you and me.
01:12:05.166 --> 01:12:07.041
And Bruce. [Eliza giggles]
01:12:08.583 --> 01:12:11.750
♪ Everybody's got a hungry heart ♪
01:12:12.666 --> 01:12:16.208
♪ Lay down your money
And you play your part ♪
01:12:17.416 --> 01:12:21.625
♪ Everybody's got a hu... hu...
Hungry heart ♪
01:12:24.958 --> 01:12:26.416
♪ Whoa-oh ♪
01:12:29.875 --> 01:12:31.458
-Shazia.
-Um...
01:12:33.916 --> 01:12:35.916
I... I forgot my textbook and...
01:12:38.916 --> 01:12:41.916
♪ We took what we had
And we ripped it apart ♪
01:12:44.458 --> 01:12:45.625
You owe me.
01:12:47.833 --> 01:12:50.833
♪ Everybody's got a hungry heart ♪
01:12:52.208 --> 01:12:55.208
♪ Everybody's got a hungry heart ♪
01:12:58.291 --> 01:13:00.291
-Can I ask you something?
-What?
01:13:02.083 --> 01:13:03.916
Are you doing this to shock your parents?
01:13:05.750 --> 01:13:08.791
You honestly think I'm thinking
about my parents right now?
01:13:09.625 --> 01:13:12.291
Cause I just want you to know
that I'm absolutely fine with that.
01:13:12.708 --> 01:13:14.166
[Eliza laughs]
01:13:14.458 --> 01:13:16.500
["For You My Love" playing]
01:13:17.291 --> 01:13:19.833
♪ For you, my love ♪
01:13:21.708 --> 01:13:25.000
-♪ For you I love ♪
-[Javed chuckles]
01:13:28.541 --> 01:13:33.041
♪ Brave through the hurricane ♪
01:13:33.625 --> 01:13:35.958
♪ Only for you ♪
01:13:38.583 --> 01:13:43.291
♪ For you I'd give up everything ♪
01:13:43.708 --> 01:13:47.125
♪ For you I'd give ♪
01:13:47.208 --> 01:13:48.125
[sighs]
01:13:48.583 --> 01:13:50.750
♪ For you, my love ♪
01:13:54.375 --> 01:13:55.833
Do you know what time it is, mate?
01:13:56.833 --> 01:13:58.083
Here's your lyrics.
01:13:58.375 --> 01:13:59.791
You should thank my girlfriend.
01:14:02.875 --> 01:14:05.208
You little devil.
01:14:06.750 --> 01:14:09.208
Get in here. Get in, come in.
I wanna know all the details.
01:14:09.291 --> 01:14:12.291
I can't. I've promised
to take my sister to a gig.
01:14:12.375 --> 01:14:13.500
Gig?
01:14:14.166 --> 01:14:15.375
At eight in the morning?
01:14:16.083 --> 01:14:18.291
[Javed]
This is a really big favor, Shazia.
01:14:18.750 --> 01:14:21.416
[Shazia]
I know, but she's worth it, right?
01:14:22.208 --> 01:14:24.041
She's really pretty too.
01:14:24.125 --> 01:14:26.833
Anyway, are you sure
these lot's parents don't know
01:14:26.916 --> 01:14:29.416
they've bunked off school
to hit a nightclub at ten in the morning?
01:14:29.500 --> 01:14:31.458
Are you sure you're even Asian?
01:14:31.666 --> 01:14:34.458
I can't believe you've never heard
of a daytimer before.
01:14:34.750 --> 01:14:37.916
[pop music pounding]
01:14:48.541 --> 01:14:50.375
Jesus, Shazia!
01:14:50.833 --> 01:14:53.208
You look like a Pakistani Madonna!
01:14:53.875 --> 01:14:56.000
Thank God Mum and Dad can't see you.
01:14:56.083 --> 01:14:58.458
That's what's so perfect about daytimers.
01:14:58.541 --> 01:15:00.708
We get to be us. Come on.
01:15:11.291 --> 01:15:13.916
♪ Come on, party people ♪
01:15:16.458 --> 01:15:20.416
-["Because the Night" playing]
-♪ They can't hurt you now ♪
01:15:20.500 --> 01:15:22.875
♪ They can't hurt you now ♪
01:15:24.958 --> 01:15:29.166
♪ Because the night belongs to lovers ♪
01:15:29.375 --> 01:15:33.208
♪ Because the night belongs to lovers ♪
01:15:33.666 --> 01:15:37.625
♪ Because the night belongs to lovers ♪
01:15:38.000 --> 01:15:41.458
♪ Because the night belongs to us ♪
01:15:42.000 --> 01:15:45.791
♪ Have I doubt when I'm alone ♪
01:15:46.416 --> 01:15:50.375
♪ Love is a ring, telephone ♪
01:15:50.708 --> 01:15:54.375
♪ Love is an angel disguised as lust ♪
01:15:55.125 --> 01:15:58.958
♪ Here in our bed till the morning comes ♪
01:15:59.375 --> 01:16:00.625
[disco music plays]
01:16:05.041 --> 01:16:08.416
Big round of applause. And for the Asian
Michael Jackson, Johnny Zee.
01:16:08.958 --> 01:16:11.791
Now, I've got a fresh cut coming
in straight off the press in Southall.
01:16:11.875 --> 01:16:14.416
They've got the best hair in the West.
It's Heera!
01:16:14.500 --> 01:16:16.833
[whooping and cheering]
01:16:17.625 --> 01:16:20.458
[disco music plays]
01:16:44.250 --> 01:16:45.250
[bouncer] Come along. Keep moving.
01:16:45.333 --> 01:16:48.458
Yeah, thanks for coming.
Yeah. Keep moving.
01:16:48.541 --> 01:16:49.875
Can I have an NME, please?
01:16:50.750 --> 01:16:51.791
-There you go.
-Thanks.
01:16:51.875 --> 01:16:52.833
Thank you.
01:16:54.875 --> 01:16:55.791
[vendor] Hello, young lady,
how can I help you?
01:16:55.875 --> 01:16:57.625
[girl] Can I have a Kit Kat, please?
01:16:58.166 --> 01:16:59.291
[vendor] That's 20 pence, please.
01:17:15.041 --> 01:17:15.958
Thanks.
01:17:16.791 --> 01:17:18.250
We're so even now.
01:17:20.416 --> 01:17:21.500
What's his name?
01:17:23.208 --> 01:17:25.416
-Kaleem.
-How long have you known him?
01:17:29.375 --> 01:17:30.541
Fifteen months.
01:17:31.083 --> 01:17:32.250
Fifteen months?
01:17:32.333 --> 01:17:33.458
He goes to the boys' school down the road.
01:17:33.541 --> 01:17:36.916
Shazia, you are good.
I didn't even know you could dance!
01:17:39.791 --> 01:17:42.000
It's the only time I can forget life.
01:17:43.333 --> 01:17:46.000
When I'm dancing, I block out the world.
01:17:48.875 --> 01:17:50.000
I know what you mean.
01:17:51.791 --> 01:17:54.583
And this is what you do
in your own crazy gora rock world.
01:17:57.250 --> 01:17:58.208
He's coming.
01:17:59.041 --> 01:18:03.083
Bruce. Wembley Stadium.
Oh my God! Oh my God!
01:18:04.541 --> 01:18:06.708
You know, unless Bruce does a daytimer,
01:18:06.791 --> 01:18:08.625
you know there's no way
you're going, don't you?
01:18:08.958 --> 01:18:11.875
I am going. I have to.
01:18:12.291 --> 01:18:14.458
[typewriter keys clacking]
01:18:22.541 --> 01:18:23.625
Hi. It's Javed, right?
01:18:24.583 --> 01:18:26.291
Yes. You want tea?
01:18:27.000 --> 01:18:28.375
You're Muslim, right?
01:18:29.541 --> 01:18:32.000
Yeah. I can still stay, right?
01:18:32.708 --> 01:18:33.583
Can you speak Urdu?
01:18:34.541 --> 01:18:36.666
-I'm not fluent.
-That's more than me.
01:18:36.750 --> 01:18:38.333
Come on.
Got a story to cover at the mosque.
01:18:38.416 --> 01:18:40.583
-And no one's gonna talk to me.
-The mosque?
01:18:40.875 --> 01:18:42.000
People are calling for it
to be closed down.
01:18:42.583 --> 01:18:44.375
You can help get your lot's version over.
01:18:44.666 --> 01:18:46.375
If you're lucky,
you might get your first by-line.
01:18:58.166 --> 01:18:59.041
There.
01:18:59.541 --> 01:19:01.416
This is making you look like a young man.
01:19:02.041 --> 01:19:04.291
Am I looking like
the handsome man you married?
01:19:05.000 --> 01:19:06.250
Don't talk like that.
01:19:07.166 --> 01:19:09.750
Sit still.
I have to get back to my sewing.
01:19:15.333 --> 01:19:17.083
[Javed's father stifles a sob]
01:19:18.000 --> 01:19:19.125
Why cry?
01:19:19.625 --> 01:19:21.500
This is a happy time now.
01:19:22.125 --> 01:19:23.291
What happy?
01:19:25.875 --> 01:19:29.208
I have failed you and Yasmeen.
01:19:31.791 --> 01:19:33.666
I cannot even pay for the wedding.
01:19:33.750 --> 01:19:35.666
[sentimental music plays]
01:19:36.750 --> 01:19:40.500
You have to slave on that sewing machine
01:19:40.583 --> 01:19:42.166
morning till night.
01:19:45.333 --> 01:19:46.333
What happened?
01:19:46.833 --> 01:19:48.291
It wasn't meant to be like this.
01:19:49.083 --> 01:19:51.708
Chup, be quiet.
01:19:55.166 --> 01:19:57.833
You are the head of this family.
01:19:58.416 --> 01:20:00.333
No one cares for us like you do,
01:20:00.791 --> 01:20:03.541
and no one has been
a better father to Yasmeen.
01:20:05.458 --> 01:20:07.583
We will have the best wedding party.
01:20:08.208 --> 01:20:09.250
You'll see.
01:20:11.250 --> 01:20:12.208
Huh?
01:20:13.250 --> 01:20:14.625
[indistinct chatter]
01:20:14.708 --> 01:20:16.666
-Let me show you.
-[in Urdu] Please get away.
01:20:16.750 --> 01:20:18.833
-Don't scratch the car.
-Be careful.
01:20:18.916 --> 01:20:20.541
Don't scratch the car.
01:20:22.083 --> 01:20:24.958
[in English]
Shaz. Shaz, I need your help.
01:20:25.375 --> 01:20:28.000
-Bruce tickets go on sale today.
-What, now?
01:20:28.083 --> 01:20:30.750
I'll come back quickly.
It's only down the road.
01:20:30.833 --> 01:20:34.000
I'll meet you at the venue.
If I don't go now, they might sell out.
01:20:34.583 --> 01:20:36.916
OK, fine. I'll cover for you.
01:20:37.333 --> 01:20:38.916
Where did you get the money, anyway?
01:20:39.250 --> 01:20:40.833
Dad takes all the wages.
01:20:40.916 --> 01:20:44.083
The Herald paid me for my article,
but I never told Dad.
01:20:45.416 --> 01:20:47.375
Oh, God, Shazia,
you're making me feel bad.
01:20:47.458 --> 01:20:49.833
[woman] Look! Look at the beautiful bride.
01:20:50.708 --> 01:20:52.333
[man] That's what a bride
should look like.
01:20:54.041 --> 01:20:56.625
-[man] Princess of Bury Park!
-You should go.
01:20:56.875 --> 01:21:00.083
You might never
get to see Bruce again. Go.
01:21:01.208 --> 01:21:03.458
[Javed's father]
Go and sit down in your car, ladies.
01:21:03.541 --> 01:21:05.458
Come on, everyone, quickly, in your cars.
01:21:06.000 --> 01:21:08.916
["Jungleland" playing]
01:21:37.541 --> 01:21:39.125
[shouting and clamoring]
01:21:40.750 --> 01:21:43.125
We are going to a wedding there, Officer!
01:21:43.208 --> 01:21:45.583
-You'll have to wait, sir.
-What's going on?
01:21:45.666 --> 01:21:49.041
We need to get to the community center.
My daughter is getting married.
01:21:49.708 --> 01:21:52.625
[chanting] If they're black,
send them back!
01:21:52.708 --> 01:21:54.416
[angry shouting and chanting]
01:21:56.708 --> 01:21:59.083
Just move back
and to the side there for me, please.
01:21:59.166 --> 01:22:01.958
-[clamoring]
-[police officer] Move over, please.
01:22:02.250 --> 01:22:03.416
-Beti.
Mum.
01:22:03.500 --> 01:22:05.875
-Stay here.
-[officer] Move over to the side.
01:22:06.250 --> 01:22:07.875
[Javed's father]
We have to get to the community center.
01:22:07.958 --> 01:22:10.708
[chanting]
If they're black, send them back!
01:22:10.791 --> 01:22:13.291
-Nazi scum!
-Educate yourself!
01:22:13.583 --> 01:22:15.583
Pakis out! Pakis out!
01:22:15.666 --> 01:22:17.541
[clamoring]
01:22:23.583 --> 01:22:25.125
Smash the National Front!
01:22:27.500 --> 01:22:29.041
-[NF member] Traitor!
-Smash the National Front!
01:22:31.583 --> 01:22:33.500
Bruce Springsteen.
Do you still have tickets?
01:22:33.791 --> 01:22:35.250
Please tell me you still have tickets.
01:22:38.833 --> 01:22:40.041
We haven't sold any yet, J.
01:22:41.000 --> 01:22:43.500
Oh. Two, please.
01:22:45.916 --> 01:22:46.833
That's 40 quid.
01:22:47.708 --> 01:22:48.666
It's all there.
01:22:49.208 --> 01:22:50.625
-["Jungleland" playing]
-Thanks.
01:22:50.708 --> 01:22:53.041
[Javed's father]
Saleem, what are you doing? Come back.
01:22:53.125 --> 01:22:55.625
[Saleem] Oi, move!
What are you playing at?
01:22:55.708 --> 01:22:56.958
[Saleem] We've got to get to a wedding.
01:22:57.041 --> 01:22:58.208
-[punching]
-[Javed's father] Saleem!
01:22:58.708 --> 01:23:00.291
Oh my God!
01:23:02.875 --> 01:23:04.708
-Argh!
-[gasps]
01:23:07.083 --> 01:23:08.958
[shouting]
01:23:10.041 --> 01:23:12.458
-Are you OK?
-I'm OK.
01:23:13.083 --> 01:23:14.666
Go and get him! Go and get him, quickly!
01:23:15.958 --> 01:23:17.375
Where's Javed?
01:23:17.541 --> 01:23:18.833
Is he OK?
01:23:19.916 --> 01:23:22.000
-[Javed's father] Where's Javed?
-Javed?
01:23:22.083 --> 01:23:23.083
[Javed's father] Javed?
01:23:50.625 --> 01:23:51.833
[Saleem] Javed?
01:23:53.291 --> 01:23:55.208
[mother speaks in Punjabi]
Hey! Are you fine?
01:24:02.958 --> 01:24:07.791
♪ Outside the street's on fire
In a real death waltz ♪
01:24:09.208 --> 01:24:12.583
♪ Between what's flesh
And what's fantasy ♪
01:24:13.791 --> 01:24:17.166
♪ And the poets down here
Don't write nothing at all ♪
01:24:17.250 --> 01:24:20.583
♪ They just stand back and let it all be ♪
01:24:21.541 --> 01:24:23.000
♪ And in the quick of a knife ♪
01:24:23.375 --> 01:24:26.083
♪ They reach for their moment
And try to make an honest stand ♪
01:24:29.541 --> 01:24:32.833
♪ But they wind up wounded
Not even dead ♪
01:24:35.916 --> 01:24:42.625
♪ Tonight in Jungleland ♪
01:24:49.750 --> 01:24:52.333
You should take it off now.
Let me fix it for you properly.
01:24:52.416 --> 01:24:53.791
Leave it.
01:24:56.458 --> 01:24:58.791
Yasmeen looked so beautiful,
didn't she, Mum?
01:24:58.875 --> 01:25:00.958
-Thank God she liked the boy.
-He liked her too.
01:25:02.000 --> 01:25:03.500
I saw him sneak smiles at her a lot.
01:25:04.208 --> 01:25:06.333
See? Those thugs couldn't spoil our day.
01:25:13.166 --> 01:25:14.166
[doorbell rings]
01:25:27.833 --> 01:25:29.166
[neighbor] You've hit the jackpot.
01:25:31.583 --> 01:25:32.416
Thank you.
01:25:33.500 --> 01:25:34.833
Mr. Khan.
01:25:36.625 --> 01:25:38.875
He's only gone and bloody done it.
01:25:39.958 --> 01:25:41.083
Front-page credit.
01:25:41.166 --> 01:25:42.291
[Javed chuckles]
01:25:54.541 --> 01:25:56.000
Congratulations, son.
01:25:56.083 --> 01:25:57.458
You're on your way.
01:26:05.416 --> 01:26:06.833
On Yasmeen's wedding day?
01:26:07.083 --> 01:26:09.291
You, washing your dirty clothes in public.
01:26:09.375 --> 01:26:10.375
-Dad...
-You think that
01:26:10.666 --> 01:26:12.000
this is a good thing to do?
01:26:12.791 --> 01:26:13.875
What do you know about Islam?
01:26:13.958 --> 01:26:15.625
I was just trying to protect the mosque.
01:26:16.041 --> 01:26:18.416
I thought you'd be proud of me
writing the paper, like Mr. Evans is.
01:26:18.708 --> 01:26:22.250
Proud? You think bringing attention
to us will make me feel proud?
01:26:23.000 --> 01:26:25.291
I was giving us a voice,
telling our story.
01:26:25.375 --> 01:26:27.083
We should keep our heads down.
01:26:28.166 --> 01:26:30.666
Your head is full of big ideas,
01:26:30.750 --> 01:26:31.916
above you.
01:26:32.250 --> 01:26:33.541
This is all to do with this Jewish singer.
01:26:33.625 --> 01:26:35.166
He isn't Jewish, Dad.
01:26:35.250 --> 01:26:38.625
Your son has lost his mind,
listening to this man's bakwaas.
01:26:38.708 --> 01:26:41.916
-Dad, just listen to me.
-You listen to me. Huh?
01:26:42.000 --> 01:26:44.166
Do you think that this man
sings for people like us?
01:26:44.458 --> 01:26:45.791
But he talks to me.
01:26:47.708 --> 01:26:50.416
He's coming to London,
and I'm gonna go see him.
01:26:51.958 --> 01:26:54.875
He's doing a concert, and I'm going.
01:26:56.791 --> 01:26:58.583
Where did you get the money
to buy these tickets?
01:26:59.166 --> 01:27:01.541
I earned it, at the Herald.
01:27:02.625 --> 01:27:04.958
You told me that they didn't pay you.
01:27:05.916 --> 01:27:09.416
Your mother has been working
night and day for this wedding,
01:27:09.916 --> 01:27:11.416
and you had money to waste?
01:27:11.875 --> 01:27:13.166
This has gone too far.
Give me those tickets.
01:27:13.250 --> 01:27:15.250
No! They're mine.
01:27:15.625 --> 01:27:18.625
It's my money.
I can't wait to get away from here.
01:27:19.333 --> 01:27:21.916
-I want to go to university.
-You will go to university in Luton.
01:27:22.000 --> 01:27:24.208
Luton doesn't even have a university!
01:27:24.291 --> 01:27:26.708
But Manchester University, they want me.
01:27:26.791 --> 01:27:29.166
You will not go to Manchester. You will
not go anywhere. Give me those tickets.
01:27:29.250 --> 01:27:31.208
No! I bought them with money
01:27:31.291 --> 01:27:32.625
I earned as a writer.
01:27:32.708 --> 01:27:35.083
-My words paid for these.
-Give me those tickets!
01:27:35.166 --> 01:27:36.708
-No!
-Here, give me those!
01:27:36.791 --> 01:27:38.208
-[Shazia] Stop, stop!
-[Javed] Dad!
01:27:38.291 --> 01:27:39.833
-[Javed's mother] Stop it!
-[Shazia] Dad, stop it!
01:27:39.916 --> 01:27:41.583
Get off me!
01:27:41.958 --> 01:27:44.625
[Javed's mother]
Please stop! What are you doing?
01:27:44.708 --> 01:27:46.666
What did I say, huh?
01:27:46.916 --> 01:27:50.000
You are not British!
So stop acting like a gora.
01:27:50.083 --> 01:27:52.125
You are Pakistani. You are my son!
01:27:52.375 --> 01:27:54.250
[grunts] I don't wanna be your son!
01:27:57.125 --> 01:27:58.541
I wanna be more than that!
01:28:02.750 --> 01:28:03.791
[door slams]
01:28:03.958 --> 01:28:05.833
[train passes in distance]
01:28:11.166 --> 01:28:12.333
[engine fails to start]
01:28:15.625 --> 01:28:17.416
[ignition fails]
01:28:19.375 --> 01:28:21.208
["The Promised Land" playing]
01:28:26.291 --> 01:28:27.791
[sobbing]
01:28:27.875 --> 01:28:30.375
♪ Well, the dogs on Main Street howl ♪
01:28:30.458 --> 01:28:32.708
♪ Cause they understand ♪
01:28:34.250 --> 01:28:39.000
♪ If I could take this moment
Into my own hands ♪
01:28:40.708 --> 01:28:43.250
♪ Mister, I ain't a boy ♪
01:28:43.458 --> 01:28:45.958
♪ No, I'm a man ♪
01:28:47.208 --> 01:28:52.083
♪ And I believe in the Promised Land ♪
01:28:57.375 --> 01:29:00.875
♪ I've done my best now
To live the right way ♪
01:29:02.125 --> 01:29:06.916
♪ I get up every morning
And go to work each day ♪
01:29:07.500 --> 01:29:11.375
♪ But your eyes go blind
And your blood runs cold ♪
01:29:11.875 --> 01:29:14.416
♪ Sometimes I feel so weak ♪
01:29:14.916 --> 01:29:16.458
♪ I just want to explode ♪
01:29:18.625 --> 01:29:22.375
♪ Explode and tear this whole town apart ♪
01:29:23.541 --> 01:29:28.750
♪ Take a knife and cut
This pain from my heart ♪
01:29:30.458 --> 01:29:34.375
♪ Try to find somebody itching
For something to start ♪
01:29:34.958 --> 01:29:37.541
♪ Well, the dogs on Main Street howl ♪
01:29:37.625 --> 01:29:40.250
♪ Cause they understand ♪
01:29:41.125 --> 01:29:46.375
♪ If I could take this moment
Into my hands ♪
01:29:48.291 --> 01:29:50.500
♪ Mister, I ain't a boy ♪
01:29:51.083 --> 01:29:53.416
♪ No, I'm a man ♪
01:29:54.708 --> 01:29:59.291
♪ And I believe in the Promised Land ♪
01:30:01.500 --> 01:30:02.791
-Is your dad OK?
-Excuse me.
01:30:02.875 --> 01:30:04.666
I was there when he got knocked down.
Where were you?
01:30:05.625 --> 01:30:07.041
I didn't know the date
of the march had changed.
01:30:08.416 --> 01:30:09.791
I went to get tickets
to the Bruce concert.
01:30:10.166 --> 01:30:13.500
Your dad could have been seriously hurt.
You should have been there.
01:30:13.583 --> 01:30:16.041
Who goes to buy concert tickets
on a family wedding day?
01:30:16.125 --> 01:30:17.875
Ah. So now I've upset you as well.
01:30:18.458 --> 01:30:20.250
Sorry for thinking about myself for once.
01:30:20.541 --> 01:30:22.458
Oh, stop being a prat.
01:30:24.166 --> 01:30:25.375
You know what?
01:30:26.708 --> 01:30:28.041
There's no point.
01:30:29.416 --> 01:30:30.833
-In what?
-In this.
01:30:31.875 --> 01:30:34.291
Us. It can't mean anything.
You understand?
01:30:35.250 --> 01:30:37.041
-No, I don't.
-I mean, my family...
01:30:37.125 --> 01:30:40.291
Javed, stop making your family
your excuse for everything.
01:30:40.375 --> 01:30:43.500
-[boy] That jumper is awful.
-[laughter]
01:30:43.583 --> 01:30:44.500
[Miss Clay] Javed?
01:30:50.416 --> 01:30:51.875
Sorry.
I know this probably isn't the best time,
01:30:51.958 --> 01:30:53.708
but I gave your essay,
01:30:54.125 --> 01:30:56.333
"An American Dream in Luton,"
to the principal,
01:30:56.416 --> 01:30:59.250
and I sent it into a competition.
01:31:00.541 --> 01:31:01.500
Why?
01:31:02.500 --> 01:31:03.625
Because it's good.
01:31:04.541 --> 01:31:07.083
You'll never guess what.
You only went and bloody won.
01:31:07.833 --> 01:31:09.041
Excuse me?
01:31:09.125 --> 01:31:11.250
They picked ten young writers
out of thousands,
01:31:11.333 --> 01:31:13.333
and you are on the list.
01:31:15.500 --> 01:31:16.750
Don't you wanna know what you've won?
01:31:17.291 --> 01:31:20.000
-Not really.
-Only a trip to Monmouth College.
01:31:21.000 --> 01:31:22.333
They run
a prestigious writing competition,
01:31:22.416 --> 01:31:25.833
and I thought that they would appreciate
your sentiments on a local luminary.
01:31:26.791 --> 01:31:28.875
You do know
where Monmouth College is, right?
01:31:30.166 --> 01:31:32.958
New Jersey, USA.
01:31:33.458 --> 01:31:35.333
You'll only be a few miles
away from Asbury Park
01:31:35.416 --> 01:31:37.083
where your great hero grew up.
01:31:39.416 --> 01:31:41.166
They should give the prize
to someone who can go.
01:31:41.541 --> 01:31:42.708
[stutters] What?
01:31:43.083 --> 01:31:45.208
My dad will never let me go to America.
01:31:49.833 --> 01:31:51.666
-["The Promised Land" playing]
-Right.
01:31:53.166 --> 01:31:57.041
Act III, Scene IV. Of media and...
01:31:59.708 --> 01:32:04.458
♪ I get up every morning
And go to work each day ♪
01:32:05.083 --> 01:32:08.916
♪ But your eyes go blind
And your blood runs cold ♪
01:32:09.416 --> 01:32:14.458
♪ Sometimes I feel so weak
I just want to explode ♪
01:32:16.333 --> 01:32:20.208
♪ Explode and tear this whole town apart ♪
01:32:20.958 --> 01:32:26.000
♪ Take a knife and cut
This pain from my heart ♪
01:32:26.083 --> 01:32:27.250
[Javed's father] Oh, Mr. Malik.
01:32:28.000 --> 01:32:32.000
♪ Try to find somebody itching
For something to start ♪
01:32:32.416 --> 01:32:37.666
♪ Well, the dogs on Main Street howl
Cause they understand ♪
01:32:38.833 --> 01:32:44.458
♪ If I could take this moment
Into my hands ♪
01:32:46.000 --> 01:32:48.666
♪ Mister, I ain't a boy ♪
01:32:48.750 --> 01:32:52.125
♪ No, I'm a man ♪
01:32:52.208 --> 01:32:57.750
♪ And I believe in a Promised Land ♪
01:32:58.083 --> 01:33:03.333
♪ And I believe in a Promised Land ♪
01:33:10.208 --> 01:33:11.458
Here, Jahanoor.
01:33:21.375 --> 01:33:22.625
I won a contest.
01:33:25.208 --> 01:33:26.958
You won something? That's good.
01:33:27.416 --> 01:33:28.416
For writing.
01:33:30.083 --> 01:33:33.000
If you won, you must have worked hard.
That's good.
01:33:33.708 --> 01:33:36.791
The prize is I get to attend
a conference at Monmouth College.
01:33:39.000 --> 01:33:41.375
-Where's that?
-New Jersey, America.
01:33:42.833 --> 01:33:45.083
I won out of thousands of students.
01:33:46.833 --> 01:33:50.625
America is unsafe. There's drugs, gangs...
01:33:50.708 --> 01:33:52.083
There's plenty of drugs
and gangs in Luton.
01:33:52.416 --> 01:33:54.625
In America,
no one cares where you're from.
01:33:55.416 --> 01:33:57.125
Anyone can do what they wanna do.
01:33:57.541 --> 01:33:59.208
They don't even know what Pakistanis are.
01:33:59.291 --> 01:34:01.958
Everything that is bad about England
is even worse in America.
01:34:02.041 --> 01:34:03.500
No, Dad.
01:34:03.583 --> 01:34:06.083
Everything that's good in Britain
is even better in America.
01:34:06.541 --> 01:34:08.916
The music, the TV, the possibilities.
01:34:09.000 --> 01:34:10.458
I wanna taste it all for myself.
01:34:11.000 --> 01:34:12.666
It's too dangerous, and you're too young.
01:34:12.750 --> 01:34:14.291
How old were you when you left Pakistan?
01:34:15.250 --> 01:34:16.208
What did your dad say?
01:34:16.500 --> 01:34:17.500
That's different.
01:34:18.916 --> 01:34:20.250
I'm going, Dad.
01:34:22.208 --> 01:34:23.083
I have to.
01:34:28.458 --> 01:34:31.708
If you disrespect my wishes
and walk out of that door...
01:34:33.833 --> 01:34:35.000
don't come back.
01:34:36.041 --> 01:34:38.250
["Blinded by the Light" playing]
01:34:40.875 --> 01:34:41.875
[Javed's mother] Javed.
01:34:44.416 --> 01:34:45.375
Beta.
01:34:55.750 --> 01:34:59.166
♪ Madman drummers bummers
And Indians in the summer ♪
01:34:59.250 --> 01:35:01.875
♪ With a teenage diplomat ♪
01:35:02.958 --> 01:35:05.000
♪ In the dumps with the mumps ♪
01:35:05.291 --> 01:35:09.916
♪ As the adolescent pumps his way
Into his hat... ♪
01:35:10.166 --> 01:35:11.041
Beta.
01:35:11.125 --> 01:35:14.791
♪ With a boulder on my shoulder
Feelin' kinda older ♪
01:35:14.875 --> 01:35:18.541
-♪ I tripped the merry-go-round ♪
-[Javed's father sighs]
01:35:18.625 --> 01:35:22.791
♪ With this very unpleasing
Sneezing and wheezing ♪
01:35:22.875 --> 01:35:25.333
♪ The calliope crashed to the ground ♪
01:35:26.916 --> 01:35:27.916
[customs officer] Next.
01:35:28.833 --> 01:35:30.208
Purpose of your visit?
01:35:30.458 --> 01:35:33.208
I'm going to a conference at Monmouth
College. I won a prize to attend.
01:35:35.791 --> 01:35:36.875
But that's not my main purpose.
01:35:38.125 --> 01:35:39.958
I'm going to Asbury Park with my friend
01:35:40.166 --> 01:35:41.666
to see Bruce Springsteen's hometown.
01:35:41.750 --> 01:35:42.875
Excuse me?
01:35:44.958 --> 01:35:46.791
Hey, Billy. Check this guy out.
01:35:47.291 --> 01:35:48.250
He's come all this way
01:35:48.333 --> 01:35:50.541
because him and his buddy
are Bruce fans.
01:35:56.083 --> 01:35:58.375
I can't think of a better reason
to visit the United States
01:35:58.833 --> 01:36:00.250
than to see the home of the Boss.
01:36:03.000 --> 01:36:05.708
-Next.
-♪ Well, she was blinded ♪
01:36:05.791 --> 01:36:07.208
♪ By the light ♪
01:36:07.458 --> 01:36:09.375
♪ Cut loose like a deuce ♪
01:36:09.458 --> 01:36:11.541
♪ Another runner in the night ♪
01:36:11.916 --> 01:36:14.750
♪ Blinded by the light ♪
01:36:15.875 --> 01:36:19.208
♪ She got down but she never got tight ♪
01:36:19.291 --> 01:36:20.750
♪ But she'll make it ♪
01:36:21.416 --> 01:36:23.083
♪ All right ♪
01:36:26.916 --> 01:36:28.833
♪ Some brimstone baritone ♪
01:36:28.916 --> 01:36:31.541
♪ Anti-cyclone rolling stone ♪
01:36:31.625 --> 01:36:33.958
♪ Preacher from the east ♪
01:36:34.041 --> 01:36:36.625
♪ He says dethrone the Dictaphone ♪
01:36:36.708 --> 01:36:40.750
♪ Hit it in its funny bone
That's where they expect it least ♪
01:36:41.375 --> 01:36:44.916
♪ Yeah, he was blinded by the light ♪
01:36:45.125 --> 01:36:47.208
♪ Cut loose like a deuce ♪
01:36:47.291 --> 01:36:49.208
♪ Another runner in the night ♪
01:36:49.291 --> 01:36:52.583
♪ Blinded by the light ♪
01:36:53.666 --> 01:36:54.958
♪ Mama always told me ♪
01:36:55.041 --> 01:36:58.041
♪ Not to look into the sights of the sun ♪
01:36:59.000 --> 01:37:03.125
♪ Whoa, but Mama That's where the fun is ♪
01:37:03.541 --> 01:37:05.000
♪ Ooh, yeah ♪
01:37:05.083 --> 01:37:08.000
Saturday night in The Stone Pony,
01:37:08.916 --> 01:37:10.666
where it all began for the great man.
01:37:11.458 --> 01:37:14.208
-["Independence Day" playing over TV]
-♪ Well, Papa go to bed now ♪
01:37:15.041 --> 01:37:16.250
♪ It's getting late ♪
01:37:17.458 --> 01:37:21.958
♪ Nothing we can say
Is gonna change anything now ♪
01:37:24.583 --> 01:37:29.666
♪ I'll be leaving in the morning
From St. Mary's Gate ♪
01:37:30.833 --> 01:37:35.750
♪ We wouldn't change this thing
Even if we could somehow ♪
01:37:37.916 --> 01:37:42.791
♪ Cause the darkness of this house
Has got the best of us ♪
01:37:44.458 --> 01:37:48.708
♪ There's a darkness in this town
That's got us too ♪
01:37:51.041 --> 01:37:53.041
♪ They can't touch me now ♪
01:37:53.833 --> 01:37:56.416
♪ And you can't touch me now ♪
01:37:57.125 --> 01:38:01.583
♪ They ain't gonna do to me
What I watched them do to you ♪
01:38:05.291 --> 01:38:09.291
♪ Say goodbye, it's Independence Day ♪
01:38:10.416 --> 01:38:12.708
♪ All boys must run away ♪
01:38:13.750 --> 01:38:15.875
♪ Come Independence Day ♪
01:38:17.750 --> 01:38:22.416
♪ Well, say goodbye
It's Independence Day ♪
01:38:23.333 --> 01:38:25.708
♪ All men must make their way ♪
01:38:26.791 --> 01:38:30.208
Shazia spoke to Javed.
He's back from America.
01:38:30.291 --> 01:38:31.750
He's living with his Sikh friend.
01:38:33.458 --> 01:38:35.791
-You have to make it better.
-I have to make it better?
01:38:36.250 --> 01:38:37.250
He disobeyed me.
01:38:44.750 --> 01:38:46.208
When you left home,
01:38:46.583 --> 01:38:49.250
your parents begged you to stay
in Karachi, so why did you go?
01:38:49.500 --> 01:38:50.833
I wanted a better life for my family.
01:38:51.083 --> 01:38:52.458
You thought you knew better than them.
01:38:54.916 --> 01:38:58.500
He just wants to study to be a writer
for a few years in Manchester.
01:38:58.791 --> 01:39:00.583
You were leaving Pakistan for good.
01:39:02.458 --> 01:39:05.166
I let you come here because I trusted you.
01:39:05.958 --> 01:39:08.041
Can you not trust your own son?
01:39:12.791 --> 01:39:16.291
If you don't try to fix this now,
we will lose our son for good.
01:39:16.375 --> 01:39:19.250
And if that happens,
I will never forgive you.
01:39:22.583 --> 01:39:23.875
[doorbell rings]
01:39:35.125 --> 01:39:36.958
[sentimental music plays]
01:39:45.708 --> 01:39:48.166
Huh. Father and son?
01:39:56.166 --> 01:39:57.375
Mrs. Khan?
01:39:58.500 --> 01:39:59.958
I'm friends with Javed.
01:40:00.666 --> 01:40:02.458
-[indistinct conversation]
-[applause]
01:40:06.083 --> 01:40:07.875
[principal] Good evening, everyone.
01:40:08.041 --> 01:40:11.166
Welcome to a very special evening,
01:40:11.250 --> 01:40:16.000
celebrating the very best
of Luton Sixth Form College.
01:40:16.458 --> 01:40:20.208
Please do stay around
afterwards for a reception.
01:40:20.583 --> 01:40:22.458
The Chardonnay and Twiglets
will be flowing.
01:40:22.541 --> 01:40:23.625
[laughter]
01:40:24.875 --> 01:40:29.000
And now I would like
to begin with Javed Khan
01:40:29.375 --> 01:40:31.000
reading an extract from
01:40:31.083 --> 01:40:35.125
"A Runaway American Dream in Luton."
01:40:36.166 --> 01:40:38.000
-[applause]
-[principal] Exciting. Whoops.
01:40:39.250 --> 01:40:41.166
Dad, listen to this, yeah?
01:40:41.458 --> 01:40:42.333
Thanks.
01:40:49.250 --> 01:40:51.041
Bruce Springsteen was,
01:40:51.125 --> 01:40:53.750
to quote the album he is most famous for,
01:40:53.833 --> 01:40:55.416
born in the USA,
01:40:56.208 --> 01:40:59.708
but he has fans around the world,
including me.
01:41:00.833 --> 01:41:02.958
I was not born in the USA,
01:41:03.166 --> 01:41:05.916
and I grew up not
in Asbury Park, New Jersey,
01:41:06.000 --> 01:41:07.958
but Bury Park, Luton.
01:41:08.291 --> 01:41:10.125
But the reason
I connected with Springsteen
01:41:10.208 --> 01:41:13.041
is because what
he sings about and champions
01:41:13.125 --> 01:41:14.791
are not only American values
01:41:15.083 --> 01:41:16.875
but are the best of human values.
01:41:17.375 --> 01:41:20.541
He talks about working hard
and holding on to your dreams
01:41:20.625 --> 01:41:22.416
and not letting the hardness of the world
01:41:22.500 --> 01:41:25.291
stop you from letting
the best of you slip away.
01:41:26.708 --> 01:41:28.041
In these words,
01:41:28.125 --> 01:41:32.125
I see a bridge between Springsteen
and my own Asian upbringing.
01:41:33.125 --> 01:41:35.083
[woman whispers] Just this way.
01:41:43.500 --> 01:41:48.000
And that is why the music and values
of Springsteen's American dream
01:41:48.083 --> 01:41:50.458
can reach and touch a boy from...
01:41:56.916 --> 01:41:59.000
I'm sorry.
I don't know if I can read this.
01:42:00.125 --> 01:42:01.916
You can. Go on.
01:42:08.958 --> 01:42:12.000
When I wrote it,
I really believed every word, but now...
01:42:16.500 --> 01:42:18.750
A lot has happened
since I wrote those words.
01:42:20.208 --> 01:42:23.291
Then, I thought Bruce Springsteen
was the answer
01:42:23.708 --> 01:42:25.875
and all I had to do was live by his words.
01:42:28.833 --> 01:42:30.208
I don't think that's true anymore.
01:42:33.791 --> 01:42:37.375
Bruce Springsteen got out of New Jersey
by following his dream.
01:42:38.375 --> 01:42:39.333
Bruce sings,
01:42:39.958 --> 01:42:43.416
"If dreams came true, well,
wouldn't that be nice?
01:42:43.666 --> 01:42:46.125
But this ain't no dream
we're living through tonight.
01:42:46.208 --> 01:42:49.125
If you want it,
you take it, and you pay the price."
01:42:51.625 --> 01:42:54.833
So the question I'm asking is:
Can I pay that price?
01:42:56.500 --> 01:42:59.875
I know having dreams
doesn't make me a bad son.
01:43:01.791 --> 01:43:03.625
I also know that everything I am
01:43:03.708 --> 01:43:06.250
is because of the sacrifices
my mum and dad made.
01:43:14.458 --> 01:43:16.291
My dad's not a typical dad.
01:43:19.666 --> 01:43:22.833
[sniffling] We don't have jokey chats.
01:43:22.916 --> 01:43:24.291
He's not like the dad you see on telly.
01:43:26.750 --> 01:43:29.500
A lot of the time, he seems
pretty angry at the world.
01:43:32.166 --> 01:43:35.791
I think Bruce Springsteen
would understand my dad,
01:43:36.958 --> 01:43:39.791
cause like his father, they both
came from poor backgrounds,
01:43:40.666 --> 01:43:42.333
both worked hard in factories,
01:43:42.833 --> 01:43:46.375
both had dreams that never came true,
which left them angry.
01:43:49.333 --> 01:43:52.166
And they both had sons who wanted
the chance to make them proud.
01:44:02.583 --> 01:44:06.833
Bruce has a song called
"Blinded by the Light."
01:44:08.750 --> 01:44:12.625
And when I first heard it, I thought...
I thought it was about love
01:44:14.041 --> 01:44:19.166
and being blinded by the love
we might have for a girl or money.
01:44:22.041 --> 01:44:23.916
But last night, I listened to it again.
01:44:26.125 --> 01:44:28.458
And Bruce is saying so much more.
01:44:29.958 --> 01:44:32.500
I was blinded by the light
when I first heard Springsteen
01:44:32.583 --> 01:44:34.833
because I was only thinking,
in that moment,
01:44:35.916 --> 01:44:37.791
about Springsteen and me.
01:44:40.916 --> 01:44:44.333
But we're not all just individuals.
01:44:45.166 --> 01:44:46.375
We have friends...
01:44:48.583 --> 01:44:49.541
and family...
01:44:51.125 --> 01:44:53.333
and what they think does matter.
01:44:54.708 --> 01:44:57.791
Success without them isn't really success.
01:44:59.791 --> 01:45:01.375
Being blinded meant I couldn't see
01:45:01.458 --> 01:45:04.791
how much I am like my dad
and my dad is like me.
01:45:06.583 --> 01:45:08.458
And as much as I wanted to leave Luton,
01:45:09.708 --> 01:45:12.250
I understand that it will never leave me.
01:45:14.541 --> 01:45:18.791
Bruce says no one wins
unless everybody wins.
01:45:20.875 --> 01:45:25.708
My hope is to build a bridge
to my ambitions
01:45:26.250 --> 01:45:28.291
but not a wall between my family and me.
01:45:30.541 --> 01:45:31.666
That's my dream.
01:45:32.958 --> 01:45:34.375
My American dream.
01:45:36.958 --> 01:45:37.916
In Luton.
01:45:41.500 --> 01:45:43.916
[soft piano music]
01:45:44.500 --> 01:45:46.083
Whoo!
01:45:52.625 --> 01:45:54.583
Bravo!
01:46:11.458 --> 01:46:12.666
I'm so sorry.
01:46:14.250 --> 01:46:15.875
I've missed you like mad.
01:46:18.291 --> 01:46:20.833
Like a river that don't know
where it's flowing,
01:46:21.708 --> 01:46:24.416
you took a wrong turn
and you just kept going.
01:46:27.250 --> 01:46:29.083
But everybody's got a hungry heart.
01:46:30.208 --> 01:46:31.958
Everybody's got a hungry heart.
01:46:37.541 --> 01:46:38.625
[Eliza smirks]
01:46:39.458 --> 01:46:41.083
You told my family, didn't you?
01:46:42.833 --> 01:46:43.666
Thank you.
01:46:44.583 --> 01:46:46.125
Now go and speak to your dad.
01:46:54.000 --> 01:46:55.083
[Javed's mother] Beta.
01:46:56.583 --> 01:46:59.708
-I'm so proud of you.
-Thanks. Here, take this.
01:47:00.958 --> 01:47:02.041
Shaz.
01:47:02.125 --> 01:47:04.666
-You did so good.
-[both laugh]
01:47:05.000 --> 01:47:07.375
Well done. I'll get you a drink.
01:47:08.958 --> 01:47:10.083
-Hello.
-Hello.
01:47:10.166 --> 01:47:12.041
Hi. You must be Javed's father.
01:47:12.583 --> 01:47:14.375
You should be so proud of Javed.
01:47:14.750 --> 01:47:17.041
Thanks, Miss Clay, for everything.
01:47:17.333 --> 01:47:19.916
Oh. Well, you did the work.
You're the writer.
01:47:21.416 --> 01:47:22.333
Son...
01:47:24.625 --> 01:47:26.291
This Bruce Springsteen,
01:47:26.791 --> 01:47:27.833
are you sure he's American?
01:47:28.500 --> 01:47:30.958
Yes. And not Jewish.
01:47:31.041 --> 01:47:32.041
I read his songs.
01:47:32.125 --> 01:47:35.708
He said work hard,
don't give up, respect your parents.
01:47:35.791 --> 01:47:37.291
This man must be Pakistani. [laughter]
01:47:39.208 --> 01:47:42.916
Son... write your stories, yes.
01:47:44.333 --> 01:47:45.625
But don't forget ours.
01:47:47.833 --> 01:47:48.750
Hmm?
01:47:49.625 --> 01:47:50.625
Come.
01:47:50.708 --> 01:47:52.500
[soft piano music]
01:47:53.333 --> 01:47:55.041
[chuckles]
01:48:04.416 --> 01:48:05.958
-All packed?
-Yeah.
01:48:06.041 --> 01:48:08.541
-I've made some food for you.
-Mum...
01:48:09.708 --> 01:48:11.208
I meant to give you this.
01:48:11.458 --> 01:48:14.041
It's amazing what a good price
I got for my Bruce collection.
01:48:14.916 --> 01:48:15.916
I can easily replace that.
01:48:17.208 --> 01:48:18.041
[sniffs]
01:48:22.083 --> 01:48:23.125
[exhales]
01:48:26.791 --> 01:48:28.000
Beta.
01:48:32.916 --> 01:48:33.875
[sniffs]
01:48:49.000 --> 01:48:51.375
[Matt] J! J!
01:48:51.791 --> 01:48:53.875
Mate. Hot off the press.
01:48:54.833 --> 01:48:55.958
New demo.
01:48:56.875 --> 01:48:58.125
Listen, thanks for the lyrics.
01:48:59.000 --> 01:49:00.000
Plenty more where they came from.
01:49:04.666 --> 01:49:07.166
Right, I'm off for a sound check.
01:49:07.458 --> 01:49:10.208
I'll try and wing you some free tickets
when we go on tour, yeah?
01:49:10.750 --> 01:49:12.333
-See you later.
-See you later, mate.
01:49:12.708 --> 01:49:13.791
Oi!
01:49:15.833 --> 01:49:17.458
[Javed chuckles]
01:49:23.500 --> 01:49:25.791
This is it. Me in Manchester.
01:49:26.041 --> 01:49:27.291
Me in Leicester.
01:49:27.375 --> 01:49:29.583
-We're gonna get to that place.
-Where we really wanna go.
01:49:29.916 --> 01:49:31.750
We'll walk in the sun.
01:49:32.416 --> 01:49:33.875
[both] Bruce!
01:49:33.958 --> 01:49:36.000
[both laugh]
01:49:44.416 --> 01:49:45.583
I'm gonna miss you.
01:49:45.916 --> 01:49:46.916
[Javed chuckles]
01:49:47.125 --> 01:49:49.125
Come on, Dad. Let's go.
01:49:49.208 --> 01:49:51.250
-[Javed's mother] Drive carefully.
-[Javed's father] Jaroor.
01:49:54.458 --> 01:49:55.375
Wait.
01:49:57.666 --> 01:49:59.125
-You drive.
-[gasps]
01:50:16.458 --> 01:50:17.708
[engine starts]
01:50:17.791 --> 01:50:23.833
["Tu Ganga Ki Mauj" playing]
01:50:30.666 --> 01:50:33.458
["Born to Run" playing]
01:50:33.541 --> 01:50:34.583
[both laugh]
01:50:35.791 --> 01:50:38.083
Ready? Let's go.
01:50:44.541 --> 01:50:47.750
♪ In the day we sweat it out
On the streets ♪
01:50:47.833 --> 01:50:50.750
♪ Of a runaway American dream ♪
01:50:51.333 --> 01:50:54.458
♪ At night we ride through
Mansions of glory ♪
01:50:54.541 --> 01:50:56.958
♪ In suicide machines ♪
01:50:57.875 --> 01:51:00.791
♪ Sprung from cages on Highway 9 ♪
01:51:00.875 --> 01:51:02.458
♪ Chrome wheeled, fuel injected ♪
01:51:02.541 --> 01:51:05.375
♪ And steppin' out over the line ♪
01:51:06.458 --> 01:51:10.833
♪ Oh! Baby, this town rips the bones
From your back ♪
01:51:10.916 --> 01:51:13.791
♪ It's a death-trap, it's a suicide rap ♪
01:51:13.875 --> 01:51:16.958
♪ We gotta get out while we're young ♪
01:51:17.250 --> 01:51:19.416
♪ Cause tramps like us ♪
01:51:19.500 --> 01:51:23.083
♪ Baby, we were born to run ♪
01:51:26.750 --> 01:51:28.541
♪ Yes, girl, we were ♪
01:51:33.625 --> 01:51:36.666
♪ Wendy, let me in
I wanna be your friend ♪
01:51:36.750 --> 01:51:39.833
♪ I wanna guard your dreams and visions ♪
01:51:40.083 --> 01:51:41.375
♪ Just wrap your legs ♪
01:51:41.458 --> 01:51:43.083
♪ Round these velvet rims ♪
01:51:43.166 --> 01:51:45.958
♪ And strap your hands 'cross my engines ♪
01:51:46.541 --> 01:51:49.500
♪ Together we could break this trap ♪
01:51:49.583 --> 01:51:51.458
♪ We'll run till we drop ♪
01:51:51.791 --> 01:51:54.500
♪ Baby, we'll never go back ♪
01:51:55.458 --> 01:51:59.375
♪ Whoa!
Will you walk with me out on the wire ♪
01:51:59.458 --> 01:52:02.916
♪ Cause, baby
I'm just a scared and lonely rider ♪
01:52:03.000 --> 01:52:05.958
♪ But I gotta know how it feels ♪
01:52:06.041 --> 01:52:07.958
♪ I wanna know if love is wild ♪
01:52:08.041 --> 01:52:11.666
♪ Babe, I wanna know if love is real ♪
01:52:15.500 --> 01:52:17.416
♪ Oh, can you show me? ♪
01:52:42.875 --> 01:52:45.458
["I'll Stand by You Always" playing]
01:52:53.208 --> 01:52:55.750
♪ You wake me in the night ♪
01:52:55.833 --> 01:52:58.083
♪ To your tears falling down ♪
01:52:58.708 --> 01:53:01.750
♪ Come let me dry them for you ♪
01:53:02.833 --> 01:53:05.416
♪ I wish I could tell a story ♪
01:53:05.500 --> 01:53:08.083
♪ Chase away all those ghosts ♪
01:53:08.666 --> 01:53:11.208
♪ You've got inside of you ♪
01:53:12.833 --> 01:53:18.041
♪ A story of heroes that fight on
At any cost ♪
01:53:18.583 --> 01:53:20.666
♪ Of a kingdom of love ♪
01:53:20.750 --> 01:53:23.125
♪ To be won or lost ♪
01:53:23.625 --> 01:53:28.208
♪ We'll fight here together
Till victory is won ♪
01:53:28.916 --> 01:53:33.125
♪ Come take my hand
Till morning comes ♪
01:53:33.916 --> 01:53:36.125
♪ Just close your eyes ♪
01:53:38.333 --> 01:53:42.250
♪ I'll stand by you always ♪
01:53:42.708 --> 01:53:45.125
♪ Always ♪
01:53:45.208 --> 01:53:47.625
♪ Always ♪
01:53:48.333 --> 01:53:52.708
♪ I'll stand by you always ♪
01:53:52.791 --> 01:53:55.250
♪ Always ♪
01:53:55.333 --> 01:53:57.666
♪ Always ♪
01:53:58.625 --> 01:54:01.166
♪ I know here in the dark ♪
01:54:01.250 --> 01:54:03.708
♪ Tomorrow can seem ♪
01:54:03.791 --> 01:54:06.916
♪ So very far away ♪
01:54:08.458 --> 01:54:11.250
♪ Here the ghosts and the goblins ♪
01:54:11.333 --> 01:54:13.791
♪ Can rise from your dreams ♪
01:54:14.208 --> 01:54:17.208
♪ To steal your heart away ♪
01:54:18.458 --> 01:54:21.041
♪ Together we'll chase those thieves ♪
01:54:21.125 --> 01:54:23.458
♪ That won't leave you alone ♪
01:54:23.541 --> 01:54:26.041
♪ Out from under the bed ♪
01:54:26.125 --> 01:54:28.875
♪ Out from over our home ♪
01:54:29.208 --> 01:54:33.541
♪ And when the light comes
We'll laugh, my love ♪
01:54:33.958 --> 01:54:38.375
♪ At the things that the night
Had us so frightened of ♪
01:54:39.291 --> 01:54:41.583
♪ And until then ♪
01:54:43.750 --> 01:54:47.625
♪ I'll stand by you always ♪
01:54:48.125 --> 01:54:50.208
♪ Always ♪
01:54:50.666 --> 01:54:52.791
♪ Always ♪
01:54:53.625 --> 01:54:57.750
♪ I'll stand by you always ♪
01:54:58.166 --> 01:55:00.583
♪ Always ♪
01:55:00.666 --> 01:55:02.916
♪ Always ♪
01:55:03.875 --> 01:55:07.791
♪ I'll stand by you always ♪
01:55:13.833 --> 01:55:18.333
♪ I'll stand by you always ♪
01:55:33.875 --> 01:55:38.083
♪ I'll stand by you always ♪
01:55:38.458 --> 01:55:40.333
♪ Always ♪
01:55:40.958 --> 01:55:42.875
♪ Always... ♪
01:55:43.958 --> 01:55:46.333
["For You My Love" playing]
01:55:52.541 --> 01:55:55.541
♪ For you my love ♪
01:55:58.625 --> 01:56:01.875
♪ For you I love ♪
01:56:03.416 --> 01:56:08.375
♪ Brave through the hurricane ♪
01:56:08.750 --> 01:56:11.125
♪ Only for you ♪
01:56:13.416 --> 01:56:16.583
♪ For you my love ♪
01:56:18.458 --> 01:56:23.458
♪ For you I'd give up everything ♪
01:56:24.416 --> 01:56:28.458
♪ For you I'd give ♪
01:56:28.541 --> 01:56:30.416
♪ For you, my love ♪
01:56:30.500 --> 01:56:33.333
♪ Hear, hear, hear me now ♪
01:56:33.416 --> 01:56:36.333
♪ Hear, hear, hear me now ♪
01:56:36.416 --> 01:56:39.333
♪ Hear, hear, hear me now ♪
01:56:39.416 --> 01:56:41.625
♪ Hear, hear, hear me now ♪
01:56:41.708 --> 01:56:43.541
[Punjabi song plays]