New Delhi, Oct. 25 -- A cassette-tape whisper that outmuscled stadium thunder-and the film that proves restraint still roars.

New York - The new biographical drama about a songwriter's hardest left turn opens with an unusual promise for a rock-and-roll movie: fewer arenas and confetti cannons, more bedrooms and tape hiss. Directed by Scott Cooper and anchored by Jeremy Allen White's tightly coiled performance, "Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere" rewinds to the winter of 1981-82, when a 32-year-old star stepped away from the E Street roar to sketch, on a four-track cassette deck, the haunted figures who would populate a stark, American song cycle. The film's source material is the book that inspired the script, and the studio has posit...