Mary Kom (2014) Reviews

• An insult to boxing and Mary kom. APNE was better than this. just rouge rouge n more rouge.

  Fella_shibby2014-12-06

  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).

  More

• good film

  ghazwan1242014-10-02

  This week's release, Omung Kumar's MARY KOM is one such film which is a biopic on one of India's most illustrious sports personalities, Mary Kom, who, despite all her hardships, put our country on the international map with her achievements. The film goes on to show the real life story of this sports star, which not many are aware of. The film serves as an eye opener not just on the fact that India can produce international 'gold medal winning' boxers, but also that Manipur is very much a part of India! Omung does a great job of building up the climax with heart wrenching scenes where Mary chooses to box over spending a blissful life with her family. Post her opting to box, Mary accidentally lands up at the boxing training academy of her coach Narjit Singh (Sunil Thapa), who, after seeing her persistence, teaches her that 'the world maybe round for everyone, but her world should be the shape of the boxing ring, a Square'! Mary's talent for the sport combined with her coach's training form a deadly unbeatable lethal combo who go on to win international competitions galore.AL_janaby

  More

• Mary Kom: With some flaws it's still great punch !!!

  brethart_the12014-09-05

  What's Good: Priyanka Chopra's career best performance. What's Bad: Dramatic climax. Bollywood always follow a trend of success.Since past few years the most successful genre is Bio-pics like Chak De India, Bhaag Milkha Bhaag and now Mary Kom.This year only countable good movies have entertained us and most of them are women-oriented like Queen, Mardaani, Mary Kom.It seems like these women-oriented flicks are coming out at right time, as i have witnessed during the screening after the last punch the ladies gave standing ovation to Mary Kom.Mary Kom is about how a poor girl from Manipur made her way to top against all odds.Her struggle, her passion, her madness, her love towards Boxing made her 5 times world champion.Mary Kom might not be the best movie as it contains many flaws but still it stands strong just because of Priyanka Chopra's superb performance.She has held entire movie on her shoulder, she has given more than 100% for this bio-pic. Performances wise its only and only Priyanka Chopra. She is totally into the character and this is by far her career best performance.Supporting cast like Darshan Kumar, Sunil Thapa,etc are nice. Omang Kumar's direction is decent but it could have been better looking to the hold of the script. Music goes with the flow, cinematography is top-notch. Overall its a feel pride movie. Can surely recommend one-time watch.

  More

• Does not do justice

  bewareofvikas2014-09-05

  This movie is a huge disappointment. Billed up to be one of the most heart wrenching tales of winning against all odds, the result was a very highly dramatized offering. A good parameter to judge biopics is how much the viewer feels inspired after watching it and this film fails miserably on that account. Right from the start, the supposed hardships of Mary Kom do not ring true at all, thereby making it extremely hard to root for the protagonist.Though in the second half, this is somewhat salvaged by portraying the problems of a mother of two making a comeback to the coaching arena. Add to that the dramatization of many elements, making the whole movie feel very unnatural. The boxing scenes themselves are very bland and we rarely feel the tension that usually accompanies matches in good sport-movies. Expectedly, Priyanka Chopra carries the movie and gives a good sincere performance. If only the role had been a bit more of substance, she could have taken it to greater heights. All the supporting characters, particularly the husband, though relatively unknown play their parts well. First time director Omung Kumar should have worked a lot in making a tighter script. The dialogues are also very uninspiring. The effort of making a biopic on a woman sports person is appreciable but the result is not. P.S: The product placements of various brands in the movie is really annoying.

  More

• A bad treatment to an amazing real life story.

  phoenix-rohan2014-09-05

  I will be honest with my review. I entered the hall with a lot of expectations already knowing the fact that the real life Mary Kom has had gone through a lot of struggle to become the champ, the first time, and once again after her marriage. But this movie does not justify her struggle one bit. I was never able to connect to the life of the protagonist and a lot of things didn't make any sense. For example, the first condition Priyanka Chopra keeps before marriage was that she wouldn't leave boxing. But she ties her boxing gloves to the back of her marriage car so they're trashed by the road. Was it a 'Goodbye Boxing' move? Further, I see only the husband doing everything after the marriage... a fact hard to digest for a considerably backward North-East region. Sometimes I felt the director should've kept the movie's name "Onler Kom" because he was the real hero for the most part. But no, the ever caring husband who's killing himself to keep any bothering stuff away from Mary decides to reveal about the 'hole in the heart' situation of their kid on the final day of the World Championship. And if someone doesn't know, this heart problem is kept under observation for a long time and immediate surgery is never recommended. The action was rubbish, as was the storyline, as was the soundtrack, and as was everything in the movie except the actors who've done a decent job. I feel betrayed, and heavily disappointed. If the director was able to display even half the real story of Mary Kom, a winner from not just a backward area, but a place where people reside in fear from both - the terrorists as well as the Indian army, I would've loved the movie. I've wasted my time and money on the movie.

  More