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Mary Kom

                                                                                 MARY KOM
What a movie! I am cursing myself for not having seen it on Friday itself. The thing is that on Friday morning itself I read such a miserable review about it in one of the leading newspapers that I was completely turned off. How wrong can you get a review? I mean surely you can call a good movie a good movie and it doesn’t need the brain of a rocket scientist to say so! And me? When did I become so devoid of my own opinion that a silly paid review could make me stay away? A lesson people…..Always always form your own opinion!
And so in short I loved the movie! What a performance by Priyanka! It is such a super effort by her. The thing is that the story of M.C Mary Kom has no grand flourishes like Milkha Singh’s did, so all that this movie has to offer is the raw talent of its actor. And boy does she deliver! The movie is a plain and starkly simple story of a woman who is “Ziddi”
That’s it!
That’s all there is to it and the journey that the director takes to deliver this story is also arrow straight. No partitions intervene and no grand enemies act as speed breakers. To begin with the path of the girl on her way to becoming a boxer is tough enough and then to tread that path again after becoming a mother is excruciating. It is complete credit to Priyanka that she makes this journey so real and convincing. The supporting cast is truly supportive and I didn’t notice them much. My entire attention was held by Priyanka.
Cinematic license is certainly taken in the telling of this story and I confess to quite enjoying the effect it renders the film. As for the freckles that dot Priyanka’s face, they would have gone completely unnoticed by me, had it not been for the fact that the asinine reviewer pointed it out in his review. The training shots were superb, although I could have done without the repetitious bridge shot, which though speaking highly of Priyanka’s prowess felt like an Ekta Kapoor serial shot.
So all in all watch if you like good acting and let me tell you that in the ninth month of the year, so far for me it’s only Queen and Mary Kom that are in the race for top honours.







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