Nida

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Like a delirious cross between Scott Pilgrim and Bend It Like Beckham, Nida Manzoor's debut feature Polite Society isn't your usual coming of age flick. It centers on Ria Khan (Priya Kansara), a British Pakistani teen who dreams of becoming a stunt woman, but finds herself at a loss when her sister decides to marry a handsome young doctor. To help save her sister, she has to overcome the groom’s overbearing mother, a wonderfully sinister Nimra Bucha, and make her way through a series of knock down, drag out fights. It's…

Adolescence is a messy place. Particularly so for girls such as Ria (Priya Kansara), who must negotiate the hostile territory of secondary school, grapple with emotions so intense they defy the laws of physics, and attempt to rescue her older sister Lena (Ritu Arya) from an impending marriage.The careering, erratic energy of this genre-hopping action fantasy from TV’s We Are Lady Parts creator Nida Manzoor is designed to capture the fizzing chaos inside the mind of the average teenage girl. It makes a pretty good fist of…

The muse can be a fickle thing to find, but Nida Manzoor’s inspiration has always been close to home. “My sister, Sanya, is only a year older than me and she is such a big influence on my work,” says the screenwriter and director. “She’s always been a rebel and I hated to see her being told what to do. She’s become my muse.”Manzoor’s free-spirited sister has long been a theme in her work. Manzoor, 33, rose to prominence in 2021 with her debut Channel 4 series, We Are Lady Parts, which told the story of an all-female…

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