Blinded by the Light2019

Malik:
Where did you get the money to buy these tickets?

Javed:
I earned it, at the Herald.

Malik:
You told me that they didn't pay you. Your mother has been working night and day for this wedding, and you had money to waste?! This has gone too far. Give me those tickets.

Javed:
No! They're mine! It's my money! I can't wait to get away from here. I want to go to university.

Malik:
You will go to university in Luton.

Javed:
Luton doesn't even have a university! But Manchester University, they want me!

Malik:
You will not go to Manchester, you will not go anywhere! Give me those tickets!

Javed:
NO!! I bought them with money I earned as a writer. My words paid for these.

Malik:
GIVE ME THOSE TICKETS!

Javed:
NO!

Malik:
HERE, GIVE ME THOSE TICKETS!

Shazia:
No, Dad! Stop!

Noor:
[trying to intervene] Please, stop!

Javed:
Dad, get off me! [Malik forcibly snatches the tickets from Javed's hands and rips them up]

Noor:
Please stop! What are you doing?

Malik:
What did I say? Huh?! You are not British! So stop acting like a gora. You are Pakistani, you are my son!

Javed:
[furiously shoves Malik away] I DON'T WANNA BE YOUR SON!!!!! [brief pause] I wanna be more than that! [storms out of the house]