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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