Truly Dreadful Film

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

I like how she proves to herself and others that she is strong. Very Inspirational to women in other countries who also want to do boxing. It is possible, and do not let anyone be sexist against you. This woman fought hard even though she got married and had children. That is so awesome how she worked hard. Not many mothers do that. That one guy she tried to straighten up was an a**hole but once again the movie is awesome. I did not understand the beginning when it first opened but now I have an idea why the movie turned out to foreshadow the rest of the movie. In the movie she battles with her family and lost touch with her own coach or mentor because he really wanted her to focus on her passion and career but she had to get married or else other drama would start. Even when she tried to convince him that she will be back and nothing will stop her, he still let her go until months later he sees her again trying to box.

Wow man. Make-up before training, make-up during training, make-up after training. The most plastic scene was the one when priyanka comes back home from jog or training n not a drop of sweat or messed look but clean face with oodles of rouge when she hugs her brother. Even when she is jogging, so much rouge man. Me and my friends were laughing in theatre during the scene when priyanka is practicing and she takes the punches in her stomach. The scene looked too fake man. I never came across school students with so much rouge in uniform. Just doing push ups and running here n there doesn't make one a method actor. Priyanka does not even come close to look like the real Mary Kom. She ain't no method actor. She looks more like Danielle panabaker. This movie is just hyped. It's not even close to bhag milkha or other bio pics. She did not get into the skin of the character. I mean just look when she jogs or runs. She looks as if she is doing an advertisement. Appearance wise she did not even come close to Mary Kom. The stunts looked faked. She did not looked like a boxer. The boxing matches were the worst boxing matches choreographed. The producers were just looking for commercial value and that's why they settled for Priyanka. When you see Hillary swank in million dollar baby, she showed some good muscles. Look at poor Priyanka, no bloody calf muscles and I never came across any boxer who did not have good calf muscles. Overall a disappointment film and feel bad for the real Mary Kom. But kudos to the real Mary. And for Priyanka she should stick to aping Jennifer Lopez and making item songs for front benchers. She should stick to promoting her cousins (both the cousins r bad actors).

Before going for MARY KOM this Friday, I had four positives in mind about the attempt made, giving it a finer edge in comparison to a few recent biographical movies coming from Hindi Cinema.Firstly it's a biopic made in an Industry which doesn't like to venture in this particular genre in terms of commercial cinema and that too talking about the life of a woman, which is even a rarer attempt by the makers unarguably.Secondly it's supposed to be a sports movie which again is a genre rarely chosen by our reputed directors and that too focusing on Boxing, a much lesser followed sport than Cricket, Hockey, Athletics or Wrestling in India.Thirdly and most importantly its not a biopic of an old person, who had done it many decades ago. On the contrary it's a film made on the life of a talented sportswoman, rather a mother, who is still young at 31 and still kicking to go further in her achievements fighting many more competitions coming ahead in the next years. And one seldom gets to see a biopic of a person who is this young and still active in his or her particular field representing the country all over the world, so proudly.In cinematic terms, the project also had a worth mentioning strong merit of being the debut directorial film of a highly experienced and known artist Omung Kumar who began his career as an anchor almost two decades before and then remained associated with numerous reputed projects as a Production Desinger/Art Director including films like BLACK and SAAWARIYA.So having these four positive points in mind and one negative one about the unnecessary glamourization of an important bio-pic, featuring Priyanka Chopra, I was excited to watch the film, only to get disappointed to a much larger extent than feared, witnessing the dismal attempt quite sadly.But before moving on to the review, I would like to clearly mention that this is a just an honest analysis of the movie made on the life of the highly respected sportswoman of our country titled MARY KOM and not in any way pointing towards the iconic figure or her majestic achievements at all.The film begins with a fine opening sequence shuttling between the present and past of a pregnant woman being taken to the hospital by her husband, amongst the tension spread in the city due to the revolting groups. The pretty weak 'boxing training' scenes coming next, straight away remind you of the masterpiece MILLION DOLLAR BABY revolving around another brave lady boxer, directed by the maestro Clint Eastwood. And then as it progresses further one feels truly amazed to see everything happening so easily in a pure filmy manner, unable to move or impress the viewer neither emotionally nor excitingly.In fact some poor choices made in the supporting cast (like Mary's mother and her coach), too many below average songs coming repeatedly, uninspiring fight sequences and a quite lifeless direction by Omung, completely ruins the whole excitement felt in the beginning with a clear indication of the film being nothing more than a mediocre attempt dealing with an the important genre of bio-pics unfortunately. In other words, this is not anything even close to a realistic biographical movie, but a mere commercial project eyeing for a quick killing at the box office getting some instant attention and few claps here and there en-cashing the national spirit. For instance, one wonders why we always tend to go overboard with a filmy execution of all training sequences in such a film (along with a typical background song) and also what can you say about the vision followed in a sports movie when in one of its international fight sequences, a German coach hits his own reputed contestant in anger (on her head), while she is coming back to him after losing the bout. Moreover I strongly don't think the talented lady's real life had been as easy as depicted in the film with everything happening on its own without any major hassles or clashes.Giving the actual truth, I remember only one impressive scene in the entire film when Mary apologizes to the federation manager and then few good moments towards the end with another Bollywoodish kind of climax fight, ending with the national anthem being played at full length (asking people to get up from their seats) which ideally should have been avoided to end it on some different kind of inspiring cinematic note.In short, I deeply respect the exceptional & unbelievable kind of achievements made by the brave Indian sportswoman MARY KOM, both in her personal life as a mother and in the sports career as a boxer. But I am unable to praise this too plain & filmy biopic made on her extraordinary life in any of its department be it cinematography, background music, performances or direction, despite the earnest attempts made by Darshan Kumaar (as Mary's husband) and Priyanka Chopra (who again was a wrong choice made for the role, as predicted by many).Hence you can go for it as an informational film, to know more about the pride of our nation, the fearless MARY KOM, who is still ready to win many more fights in the next Olympics too. But not as any great inspiring biographical movie doing any kind of acceptable justice to the subject matter here, putting it honestly.

I really liked the movie very much but I will list the flaws firstRidiculous product placement that are too obvious.The makers don't event try to hide that they have placed advertisements in the movie. Too many clichés from all sports films.We can find all the usual dramatizations of sports like a villainous opponent,hero(ine) falling and rasing just before end to win the match etc.may be just two but these are really spoilers for the movieThe good thing about the movie. Priyanka Chopra's Acting . The character of Mary Kom. Beautiful picturization of Mizoram. Mary Kom is a very powerful character and Priyanka Chopra does justice for the character.Her portrayal of mother torn between sons and career is amazing.