Some lessons which Priyanka Chopra learn from the ring

Never had I thought that I’d look at boxing something as an analogy for life. But weeks away from the release of one of my most challenging films, Mary Kom, directed by Omung Kumar, all I can think about is how this movie has taught me some of the most very important fundamental learnings in life.

After all, there’s a lot you can learn when you’re standing in that challenging ring, alone and defence less. Like renowned boxer Tex Cobb said, “If you screw up in tennis, it’s 15-love. If you screw up in boxing, it’s your ass, darling!” So here it goes…what I fondly call ‘Lessons From The Ring’ says gorgeous actress Priyanka Chopra.

It’s really hard to defend when someone’s constantly beating you black and blue. And I’m talking about all kinds of knocks — physical, mental and emotional. Mary Kom dealt with all that and that too in style. I told myself everyday that if she could do it, so could I. There were days on the shoot when I felt I couldn’t move another muscle or do another push-up. But at the end of the day, ‘DilYehZiddiHai’..

As a token of her appreciation forone of the very iconic sports star, Priyanka has invited Mary Kom for the launch of the film’s music in Mumbai tonight. The two will be hosting the event along with debutant director Omung Kumar. Besides, they will also be felicitating five people who fought against all the odds to realise their dreams, in sync with the protagonist’s never-give-up attitude.A day before the event, Priyanka tells us that her short stint in the boxing ring has taught her some fundamental lessons that she will never forget. She explains, “It is Mary’s ziddi dil that gave its wings to this film and I’m looking forward to sharing our journey with her. We have a great event planned to launch the film’s music, along with a few surprises. For me, every song in the album comes together in a way that embodies the spirit of the film.”

Composed by Shashi-Shivam, the music of the much awaited film Mary Kom, a biopic on India’s boxing champion MC Mary Kom, will be released on Wednesday night in Mumbai. Singers like Sunidhi Chauhan, Vishal Dadlani, Arijit Singh and Priyanka Chopra have sung the songs in the film.

Priyanka Chopra has already amazed everyone with her muscular look in the Mary Kom Movie, but there is more much she has in store for the fans.

The actress will be seen going bald in one specific sequence. And she was sure excited for it, Priyanka said, “That is a very authentic scene and I was damn excited for it. I never say never, so was all around the set wearing the bald look. As an actor I feel that it is my duty for the role that I portray, that I do it with complete honesty. It is a personal challenge that I set for myself to portray all my characters differently.”

Mary Kom, produced by Viacom18 Motion Pictures and Sanjay Leela Bhansali, releases September 5.

5 real things about real Mary Kom

1. The recognitions
Mary Kom has been awarded with many awards from 2001. In 2004, she won the Arjuna Award for boxing in and then in 2009 won the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award. She has also been awarded the Padma Shree in 2006. The Manipur government has decided to name the road lining the Manipur Sports Village as Mary Kom road and has made Mary Kom the Additional Superintendent of Police.

2. London Olympics
She was the only Indian female boxer to be added in the 2012 Summery Olympics after qualifying for the AIBA world Women’s Boxing Championship in 2002.

3. The school dropout
This world renowned boxer was a school dropout. Mary Kom failed to clear her ninth grade exams at Adimjati High School.

4. Dingko Singh
Mary Kom’s inspiration came from Dingko Singh who also hails from Manipur.

5. The Academy
Mary Kom went on to found her own boxing academy after winning the world championship five times called as MC Mary Kom Boxing Academy.

Mary Kom’s biopic is also all set to hit the theatres. Omung Kumar is making his directorial debut with a biopic on Indian woman boxer Mary Kom. The film ‘Mary Kom‘, which is set for a release on September 5, is a biopic on Olympic bronze medallist and five-time World Champion MC Mary Kom. “The film is the first of its kind being made in Bollywood… I did not think of the film as a risk. Biopics work because it is zero-to-hero story. The emotions run high.. It is a huge pull for anyone. It is not that I made this film after seeing ‘Bhaag Milkha Bhaag’. I had the idea much before it was made,” director Omung said.”I started this film three and half years back before any film on sports (biopic films) was made. We had started researching on Mary Kom. We had spoken to her three and half years back about this project. Then I approached Sanjay Leela Bhansali (producer) and Priyanka Chopra and things fell in place. It may be a trend now,” he added.

The biopic of the female boxer MC Mary Kom has been doing the buzz lately. The Olympic bronze medalist has been an inspiration to the world of women power and dignity. She stunned everybody with her game, struggle and victory in the Olympic 2012. She is a five-time World Boxing champion, and the only woman boxer to have won a medal in each one of the six world championships. Her achievement also amazed director Omang Kumar and Bollywood’s diva Priyanka Chopra to make a biopic on the boxer’s life starring Piggie Chops in the lead role.

The trailer of the biopic titled Mary Kom Movie is finally out. It is directed by Omung Kumar, produced by Sanjay Leela Bhansali and starring Priyanka. The film Mary Kom is to have its world premiere at Toronto International Film Festival. Priyanka Chopra looks pretty convincing and impressive as a boxer. She doesn’t look Manipuri but has almost perfected the Manipuri accent which is really complimenting. Ajit Andhare, COO Viacom 18, seemed over whelmed with the response and quoting his happiness he said, “We’re thrilled with the astounding response to the poster and teaser which we had titled ‘Mary Kom Punch’ these have set us up very well for the trailer, which will be out later this week. We’ve titled the trailer ‘Mary Kom knock-out’”. The director also seemed very pleased and stated “After a long time there has been a frenzy of this sort surrounding the release of a poster. It felt good to hear all the fabulous comments. We had to live up to people’s expectations with the teaser also. I think we succeeded in doing so. Now we have the trailer coming up. I am very excited. It’s been a long wait for me. I can finally showcase my work to the world.” Well yes, the poster is really striking and bold. Priyanka Chopra looks astonishingly stormy, fierce and tempestuous. She remarkably resembles the boxer. The color of the poster, her expressions and not to forget Priyanka’s cuts and pumped up biceps…Totally Striking.

The movie is scheduled to come out on 2nd October, 2014.

Mary Kom: Lady with Full-Confidence

The upcoming film ‘Mary Kom’ is actually a biopic on the life of champion boxer Mary Kom. This film is set to depict the struggles she faced on her journey to becoming a success star in the world of Boxing. Leading actress Priyanka Chopra plays the lead role in this film and has worked really hard towards looking authentic as a boxer in this film. The role she had to depict is that of a lady with fill confidence and this was not easy considering the struggles she had to face.

In the poster we can see Priyanka exuding oodles of confidence as she looks like she can take down any opponent going up against her in the boxing ring. Her look catches our attention instantly and gives us a feeling that she is about to receive laurels for this strong role in ‘Mary Kom’. The teaser of this film was released on the occasion of Priyanka Chopra’s birthday, but didn’t manage to cause a buzz. The trailer of this film however, caused a big splash in the cinema industry. After receiving positive reviews of Mary Kom Movie with the trailer, we can be sure that this film will do great at the box office and will win the hearts of the audience.
It is nice to see that Bollywood is making woman-centric films that break the notion that women are not capable of doing certain things. In this case, boxing is a sport that people find hard to associate with the weaker sex. Through this film and the life of Mary Kom, we see that this is wrong and women of today can achieve whatever they wish to pursue with full confidence. Apart from this film, there is another film that promotes this concept. The film Mardaani has also been termed as woman-centric as it has Rani Mukerji in the lead role playing the character of a cop. This film revolves around the fight against female trafficking in the country. Rani character in the film is that of a cop that fights crime single handedly with courage and fearlessness. Although we may call this a woman centric film, Rani Mukerji refuses to believe so. She says that a film is either good or bad and that is is wrong to term a film as woman centric or male centric. Whatever the case, it is a fact that Bollywood is now focusing on making films that show that women are in power and have nothing to fear in fighting for their dreams and fighting against evil.

Mary Kom is set to release in theatres on the 5th of September and is one of the most highly anticipated films of the year. It will be interesting to watch how this film will fare at the box office against Bollywoods previous success with a biopic through the film ‘Bhaag Milkha Bhaag’. It is nice to see Bollywood entering a new genre of film as they experiment with biopics. As far as Mary Kom is concerned, we pretty sure this experiment will bring great results and will turn out to be a commercial hit.

‘Mary Kom’ dialogues promo released

An exclusive set of Dialogue Promos from the film ‘Mary Kom’ has been released. The dialogue promo of the film are titled as ‘Fighting against all odds’ and ‘Magnificent Mary!’ respectively. The promo might give you chills as they show case the strong will and dedication of the female boxer.

The biopic of the female boxer MC Mary Kom has been doing the buzz lately. The Olympic bronze medalist has been an inspiration to the world of women power and dignity. She stunned everybody with her game, struggle and victory in the Olympic 2012. She is a five-time World Boxing champion, and the only woman boxer to have won a medal in each one of the six world championships. Her achievement also amazed director Omang Kumar and Bollywood’s diva Priyanka Chopra to make a biopic on the boxer’s life starring Piggie Chops in the lead role.

The trailer of the biopic titled Mary Kom is finally out. It is directed by Omung Kumar, produced by Sanjay Leela Bhansali and starring Priyanka. The film Mary Kom is to have its world premiere at Toronto International Film Festival. Priyanka Chopra looks pretty convincing and impressive as a boxer. She doesn’t look Manipuri but has almost perfected the Manipuri accent which is really complimenting. The first teaser of this mary kom movie was released on Priyanka’s birthday on Friday and people are gone bananas over it. It scored storming reviews all in one day.

Ajit Andhare, COO Viacom 18, seemed over whelmed with the response and quoting his happiness he said, “We’re thrilled with the astounding response to the poster and teaser which we had titled ‘Mary Kom Punch’ these have set us up very well for the trailer, which will be out later this week. We’ve titled the trailer ‘Mary Kom knock-out’”. The director also seemed very pleased and stated “After a long time there has been a frenzy of this sort surrounding the release of a poster. It felt good to hear all the fabulous comments. We had to live up to people’s expectations with the teaser also. I think we succeeded in doing so. Now we have the trailer coming up. I am very excited. It’s been a long wait for me. I can finally showcase my work to the world.” Well yes, the poster is really striking and bold. Priyanka looks astonishingly stormy, fierce and tempestuous. She remarkably resembles the boxer. The color of the poster, her expressions and not to forget Priyanka’s cuts and pumped up biceps…Totally Striking.

Priyanka Chopra has been seen in versatile roles from an undercover cop to a mentally challenged girl, she has performed magnificently. Playing the character of MC Mary Kom demanded an exhausting and rigorous training and Priyanka pulled that off with dedication. She was trained by Samir Jaura, who is also training Rani Mukerjee for Mardani and had trained Farhan Akhtar for Bhaag Milka Bhaag. The film casts Priyanka Chopra, Danny Denzongpa, and Zachary Coffin. Sanjay Leela Bhansali who is also inspired by Mary KOM said, “Mary Kom has made India proud. I was moved by her story. She is a mother of two, has been through so many struggles, has tremendous spirit and a sense of living and dignity and is now a World Champion. She has what it takes to make a great champion. An Indian woman boxer is rare. It will be an exciting film to produce and I am very happy to do it.” Boxer Mary Kom who is fond of the actress Priyanka Chopra has given her a few tips on the film, which did seemed to have helped the actress go through her journey and fit into the character of playing a boxer.

The movie is scheduled to come out on 2nd October, 2014.