Adolescence is a messy place. Particularly so for girls such as Ria (Priya Kansara), who must negotiate the hostile territory of secondary school, grapple with emotions so intense they defy the laws of physics, and attempt to rescue her older sister Lena (Ritu Arya) from an impending marriage.
The careering, erratic energy of this genre-hopping action fantasy from TV’s We Are Lady Parts creator Nida Manzoor is designed to capture the fizzing chaos inside the mind of the average teenage girl. It makes a pretty good fist of it too, with aspiring stuntwoman Ria crashing like a wrecking ball through her own life and those of everyone around her. But for all the inventive excess and extravagant martial arts sequences (not for nothing did the film draw comparisons to Everything Everywhere All At Once after its debut at Sundance), there’s a touch of children’s TV special naivety in the execution.
Still, the pinballing plot is constantly surprising, and both Kansara and Arya sparkle in this kickass celebration of sisterly bonds.
