![]() Some of the best footage here is of the teenage Mathangi dancing in her bedroom to hip-hop – all ambition and gobby attitude. Her father, a fighter with the Tamil resistance, remained in Sri Lanka. MIA, real name Mathangi Arulpragasam, Maya to her friends, arrived on a London council estate from Sri Lanka as a refugee aged eight with her mum and two siblings. The film itself is scrappily edited, directed by Steve Loveridge, an old friend from her art-school days, who had access to 700 hours of her home video. ![]() She swaggers about like an impossibly cool older sister, impulsive, seductive and brattishly difficult. But “Why can’t you just keep quiet and be normal?” may have been running through their mind.) MIA emerges from this documentary about her life – the music plays second fiddle – as immensely likable. (You don’t hear the manager’s side of the conversation. ‘I ’m unmanageable,” jokes rapper/singer/firebrand activist MIA on the phone to her manager in the midst of yet another scandal.
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