‘polite society’ release date: ‘we are lady parts’ creator nida manzoor makes feature directorial debut with action-comedy for focus features

‘polite society’ release date: ‘we are lady parts’ creator nida manzoor makes feature directorial debut with action-comedy for focus features

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Focus Features has announced that it will release _We Are Lady Parts_ creator Nida Manzoor‘s feature directorial debut _Polite Society_ in U.S. theaters on April 28, 2023. The action-comedy


will be released internationally by Universal Pictures International, with its UK debut set for April 7, 2023. _Polite Society_ follows martial artist-in-training Ria Khan, who believes she


must save her older sister Lena from her impending marriage. After enlisting the help of her friends, Ria attempts to pull off the most ambitious of all wedding heists in the name of


independence and sisterhood. Priya Kansara (_Bridgerton_), Ritu Arya (_Red Notice_), Nimra Bucha (_Ms. Marvel_), Shobu Kapoor (_We Are Lady Parts_), Ella Bruccoleri (_Call the Midwife_),


Seraphina Beh (_Top Boy_), Shona Babayemi, Jeff Mirza (_We Are Lady Parts_) and Akshay Khanna (Chloe) star. Pic was produced by Working Title’s Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner, Parkville


Pictures’ Olivier Kaempfer, and John Pocock. WATCH ON DEADLINE Manzoor’s sitcom _We Are Lady Parts_, following the members of the UK-based, all-female, Muslim punk band known as Lady Parts,


airs on Channel 4 in the UK and Peacock in the U.S. The creative who has also helmed episodes of series including _Doctor Who_ and _Enterprice_ will see her first feature open stateside


against Lionsgate’s adaptation of the classic Judy Blume novel_ Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret,_ from writer-director Kelly Fremon Craig.