When the sitcom “We Are Lady Parts” débuted in Britain, in the spring of 2021, it was immediately hailed as something new: a series that acknowledged the fact there is no single experience shared by young British Muslim women.
Three minutes into the first episode of “We Are Lady Parts,” a British sitcom about an all-female, all-Muslim punk band that débuted in the spring of 2021, the band is introduced rehearsing a raucous anthem. “I’m gonna kill my sister,” Saira, the tattooed, plaid-shirt-wearing lead singer and rhythm guitarist, snarls. “She stole my eyeliner . . . and she’s been stretching out my shoes with her big fucking feet.
Then there is the newcomer to the band, Amina—a Ph.D. microbiology student who dresses in demure cardigans and long skirts and pastel-hued hijabs, and is on the lookout for a husband, but who is also persuaded to join the band and let loose her hitherto repressed artistic self. Amina, the series’ central character, is played with winning goofiness by Anjana Vasan, who recently won an Olivier Award for her portrayal of Stella in “A Streetcar Named Desire” on the West End stage.
The preoccupations of British comedy, which is so often characterized by small-canvas satirical explorations of humiliation and repression, make themselves clearly felt in Manzoor’s work. But there are other notable influences, especially Bollywood spectaculars, martial-arts flicks, American action movies, and teen buddy comedies, all of which Manzoor consumed while spending her elementary-school years living in Singapore, where her father worked in finance.
But the film subverts those domestic-drama expectations with a horror-movie plot twist, incorporating “Crouching Tiger”-esque fight scenes, heist-movie action sequences, and an extravagant Bollywood-inspired dance number.
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