MARY COM (review) : Mother Mary shines!!

In one scene, the selectors at a boxing event unfairly rewards and selects Mary Kom’s opponent (hailing from Haryana) and Mary throws a chair at them yelling ‘You did that to me just because I hail from Manipur’. Those who have suffered, can feel her frustration and hurt. In yet another scene, Priyanka is seen cut-pasting newspaper clips while her baby rests on her side over a pile of newspapers featuring her on the front pages, eventually when the baby soils those papers wet, she crunches the papers and throws them away. The movie brings out some noteworthy issues like the plight of our sports stars,who despite winning medals for our country, face poor treatment at the central officials' hands and sometimes have to sell their medals in order to survive, also the opportunist and vindictive federation officials in India who make it almost impossible for people who hail from the north eastern part of our country to make it big!

But i have a complaint, when u say you are making a biopic it means you are trying to tell the life story of a person and present it on celluloid just ‘as it is’! But if you take cinematic liberties in re-telling your story keeping the box office in mind, then why not say ‘inspired by a boxing champion’s life, rather than ‘a biopic’? (i had the same feeling while watching ‘The Dirty Picture’!) For example , here director Omung Kumar while trying to get the tear ducts flowing, resorts to same old gimmicks like showing Mary Kom’s son almost dying in the hospital while she is in the finals of the World Championship, which did not happen in real Mary Kom's life at all! Hence the film becomes an entertainer as it treads & weaves her life story look like a film's script, complete with her early year’s struggles, victories, familial conflicts, the hardcore training sessions, and the amazing comeback post motherhood.

The film is possibly let down by the pathetic dubbing artists! Instead, the actors should have dubbed themselves which might have kept the Manipuri-hindi accent intact, adding more flavor. And when shall our film makers stop promoting products through their films (iodex and sugar free in this case!!)
Another let down in the film comes in the form of some unnecessary songs turning up every now and then!
Priyanka shines as mary kom, totally committed to her role even though her physical appearance is nothing like the real-life Mary Kom, Chopra manages to get inside the skin of her character, and gives you a couple of genuine praise worthy moments, but we know she is capable of that,she has done that before, so even though mary kom is yet another feather to her shining cap, the cap still shines brighter with her roles from Barfi , Fashion or Aitraaz ! The rest of the cast is just about okay!