Wednesday, September 10, 2014

Boxed in Viewing

Noble thoughts. Good intent. Priyanka Chopra. Method acting. Push ups. Built muscles. Gentle village girl. But strong. Fights village boys. Wants to get coached by a Pritish Nandy lookalike. Coach not accepting. Girl persevering. Finally accepting. Now girl practice boxing. Girl also like another boy. Good actor.

Then girl going to Olympics. Winning many medals. Famous. Getting married. Two children. One day. Bus . Passenger not recognising. Mary feeling sad. Pick up Gloves again. Again going to Olympics. Government manager. Not giving enough food. Mary fighting. Now Mary really mad. Her child also sick. Same Same time Mary boxing and Child also surgery. But all good finally.

Mary Kom very good. Movie Mary Kom 'Kom' good. Sets very nice. People
look real. Story almost real. Some some very filmi dialogue. Ok OK film !

Did you feel narration disjointed, stuttering, moving from good to worse, good intent but finally ending up dissatisfied. Does it hurt even more if you loved Million Dollar Baby. You bet. Lover of firang film. Come on accept it when there is creative work to be hailed.

One should decide whether they want to make a serious biopic or an entertaining movie taking off from a biopic. Not a mish mash in between.
Honestly speaking the movie left me bored in many patches. One feels for the earnest Onler played by Darshan Kumar. Priyanka plays a role that any actress putting her heart to it could play.But there's something missing in her act. Maybe there's just too much effort. Reminded me of her act in Barfi.

All the reviewing and the movie aside it is a fact that the obscure Mary Kom got her due of recognition thanks to this movie and for that kudos. More importantly North East gets discussed and that for me as an Indian is a big win. But makers, when you make a biopic please make a serious one.

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