Tag: Nida Manzoor

  • We Are Lady Parts, season 2, a total delight

    We Are Lady Parts, season 2, a total delight

    We Are Lady Parts, season 2, is somehow even better than the wonderful season 1. The four Muslim women punk rockers get the chance to put out an album to finally get the attention they deserve.

  • We Are Lady Parts, season 1, four Muslim women in a punk rock band

    We Are Lady Parts, season 1, four Muslim women in a punk rock band

    We Are Lady Parts from creator and director Nida Manzoor brings comedy to punk rock. Set in England, four Muslim women and their manager join together in a band called Lady Parts. Amina (Anjana Vasan) tells the story. She plays lead guitar. All the actors actually played their own instruments in this. It’s very much…

  • Polite Society review: fresh, fun, and surprising

    Polite Society review: fresh, fun, and surprising

    Polite Society, written and directed by Nida Manzoor, is an absolute original. A group of Pakistanis in England want to arrange a marriage. A family wants to marry off their older daughter. Their younger daughter has many, many serious objections to the union. Her efforts to stop the marriage are clever, funny, and comedic.