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Teenage aspiring stuntwoman Ria (Priya Kansara), the star of Polite Society<\/em>, has a reasonable reaction when her family arranges a marriage between her beloved older sister Lena (Ritu Arya) and a smarmy man: Ria wants to thwart the engagement and beat the shit out of the guy. <\/p>\n

That might seem like a hyperbolic response to growing pains, with Ria turning her fear of losing Lena into an excuse for Matrix-style combat. But Lena\u2019s mysterious fiance Salim (Akshay Khanna) and his imposing mother Raheela (Nimra Bucha) do actually seem to be up to something nefarious, with Ria and her loyal friends as the only people who can save Lena from her doom. Director Nida Manzoor weaves all this into an action-packed comedy that\u2019s as much about kicking ass as it is about grappling with big life changes.<\/p>\n

One of the most brutal fights in the whole movie isn\u2019t between Ria and her foes, but between Ria and her sister. The confrontation starts off as a simple sibling squabble, but eventually escalates into the sisters smashing each other into walls and completely through a door, which disintegrates under the impact. It\u2019s chaotic, bloody, unapologetically brutal, and absolutely over the top. (Meanwhile, Ria and Lena\u2019s parents, hanging out downstairs, simply sigh and tell them to clean up the rubble they create.)<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt was one of my favorite scenes to film,\u201d Manzoor tells Polygon. \u201cI found it incredibly cathartic to write everything with these two sisters.\u201d<\/p>\n

Random objects in Lena\u2019s room become unexpected weapons in the fight, from a picture frame to a heated hair straightener. Lena\u2019s childhood bedroom is just as much a part of the action of the scene as the two girls, something Manzoor felt was especially important. <\/p>\n

\u201cI was also inspired a lot by Jackie Chan movies,\u201d says Manzoor. \u201cAnd what he does is really use his environment in a fight. It locates and grounds a fight scene, because he uses bits and pieces from the set. That\u2019s why I wanted to have the hair straightener involved. I wanted to have a picture frame with the two of them there [turned into a weapon], and use the door. It inspired me to ground the fight in its truth.\u201d<\/p>\n

For all the combat in Polite Society<\/em>, Manzoor looked back at her favorite action movie sequences. One scene she kept coming back to was the fight between Morpheus and Neo in 1999\u2019s The<\/em> Matrix<\/em>, a scene she says introduced her to fight choreographer Woo Ping Yuen and the world of Hong Kong cinema. She also cites Daryl Hannah and Uma Thurman\u2019s showdown in Kill Bill<\/em> Vol. 2<\/em>, where they trash a caravan as they try to take each other out, and a scene in Haywire<\/em> where a fight between Gina Carano and Michael Fassbender rips a hotel room to pieces. <\/p>\n

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