You know how when some things occupy space at the same time it blurs together? Like when the films “Beautiful Boy”, “Boy Erased” and “Ben is Back” were all released at the same time and it became one blob of a film in people’s mind - “Beautiful Boy Erased is Back”. Or when “Hidden Figures” and “Fences” was up for awards during the same time and though the topics and the titles are not similar in any fashion, people kept tripping up and merging the titles. Like Michael Keaton called “Hidden Figures” “Hidden Fences” at the Oscars.
Well, that’s the reason I nearly missed out on Channel 4′s WE ARE LADY PARTS, now available in the U.S. on Peacock.
How so? Because it was being talked about the same time as the teen rock group The Linda Lindas garnered attention and I assumed WE ARE LADY PARTS was a series about a teen rock band.
The Linda Lindas
Not The Linda Lindas
Non. This is the cast of WE ARE LADY PARTS, a audacious, brash, funny and enlivening comedy about the professional and, sometimes romantic, trials and triumphs of five Muslim punk punkers.
Created,written and directed by Nida Manzoor (DIXI, ENTERPRICE) who retooled her award winning 2018 Comedy Blap “LADY PARTS”, the series follows band leader Saira (Sarah Kameela Impey, “ Royal Shakespeare Company: The Tempest”) and bandmates Ayesha (played by Juliette Motamed who has music career as Azadi.mp3), Bisma (Faith Omole, Shakespeare’s Globe: A Midsummer Night’s Dream) and manager Momtaz (Lucie Shorthouse, “Bulletproof” as they decide their sound - and chances at winning entry to a competition - would be improved by a lead guitarist.
Enter the unassuming Amina (Anjana Vasan, Mogul Mowgli), a part-time music teacher who is on the career path in science and on a quest of marriage. Quickly, realizing Amina has an interest in Ayesha’s brother Ahsan (Zaqi Ismail, Britannia), Saira lures in Amina who begins living a double life as fledgling guitarist and dutiful daughter and friend.
Six enjoyable 30-minute episodes fly by much too quickly. Loved every minute of it.
