We chat with Ritu_Arya_ and Priya Kansara chat about PoliteSociety, what it means to work alongside WeAreLadyParts director Nida Manzoor, and how they perfected that Devdas-inspired dance:
Nida Manzoor is taking her comedic sensibilities to the big screen with Polite Society, her feature directorial debut. Manzoor worked alongside The Umbrella Academy star Ritu Arya, who starred in the writer-director’s short Lady Parts before it became a Peacock series, and Priya Kansara to make a subversive comedy that is simultaneously a genre mash-up, unlike any film out this year.
Ritu Arya & Priya Kansara On Polite Society I think it's safe to say Polite Society is one of the best and most original films of the year. Ritu, you've worked with Nida Manzoor before on Lady Parts, the short. What was it like for you to rejoin her on this project given the material? And Priya, what was it like to work with her for the first time?
When you get to go to set every day, and you laugh every day, and it's like I'm just working with my sisters. It's as simple as that. And you know when you get a script, and you're like, I've never read anything like this. Why haven't I read anything like this? Why isn't there more stuff like this that makes me laugh and shocks me at every page and gets me this excited. So yeah, I feel so grateful.
Ritu Arya: So much of it feels familiar. And in that case it was very cathartic, of course. Growing up and not having much representation at all onscreen and feeling like that being a huge reason why I wanted to get into it. And then these scripts don't come by often. And the fact that this is here, and it's taken me so long to finally get to a script like this.
But Ritu came in, she gave me a present in our first rehearsal, and we also just hit it off straight away. It was so easy. It didn't feel like work at all. We feel like sisters now. We'll poke fun at each other. We'll laugh at random things. We feel like we have in-jokes. And we are just here having a great time. And I can lean on her and feel supported and cared for by her. And I hope that she feels the same with me. But it felt really easy.
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