{"id":29629,"date":"2019-07-16T15:09:51","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T14:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=29629"},"modified":"2019-07-16T15:09:51","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T14:09:51","slug":"blinded-by-the-light-live-qa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2019\/07\/16\/blinded-by-the-light-live-qa\/","title":{"rendered":"Blinded By The Light + Live Q&#038;A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Set in 1987, during the austere days of Thatcher\u2019s Britain, Blinded by the Light\u00a0is a joyous, coming-of-age story about a teenager who learns to live life, understand his family and find his own voice through the words and music of Bruce Springsteen.<\/p>\n<p>Directed by Gurinder Chadha (Bend it Like Beckham, Viceroy\u2019s House) and written by Sarfraz Manzoor, Gurinder Chadha and Paul Mayeda Berges, Blinded by the Light\u00a0is inspired by British journalist Sarfraz Manzoor\u2019s memoir \u201cGreetings From Bury Park.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Feelgood, joyous and life affirming, Blinded by the Light\u00a0stars a wealth of British talent, from young up and coming stars Viveik Kalra (Next of Kin, Beecham House), Nell Williams (Game of Thrones), Aaron Phagura (Doctor Who) and Dean Charles-Chapman (Game of Thrones, Breathe), to established favourites Kulvinder Ghir (Bend it Like Beckham), Meera Ganatra (PREMature), Hayley Atwell(Avengers: Endgame) and Rob Brydon (Swimming with Men).<\/p>\n<p>Includes live Q&amp;A with Director Gurinder Chadha &amp; Writer Sarfraz Manzoor.<\/p>\n<div class=\"filmPageInfo\"><span class=\"filmPageLabel\">Cast:<\/span> <span class=\"filmPageField\">Viveik Kalra, Nell Williams, Aaron Phagura<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"filmPageInfo\"><span class=\"filmPageLabel\">Director(s):<\/span> <span class=\"filmPageField\">Gurinder Chadha<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"filmPageInfo\"><span class=\"filmPageLabel\">Length:<\/span> <span class=\"filmPageField\">162 min<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Set in 1987, during the austere days of Thatcher\u2019s Britain, Blinded by the Light\u00a0is a joyous, coming-of-age story about a teenager who learns to live life, understand his family and find his own voice through the words and music of Bruce Springsteen. Directed by Gurinder Chadha (Bend it Like Beckham, Viceroy\u2019s House) and written by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}