In what reality does Priyanka Chopra look like Mary Kom or anyone from Manipur? And before anyone says there are no actresses that look like her, there are plenty of Mongoloid-looking people in India and unknown could be cast, but unfortunately this is Bollywood. Terrible.
shareProblem is there is no good NE actors who can carry a movie. Priyanka is perfect for this role. She is a good actor, has good physique to play a boxer and she is a superstar.
shareIf they were using some blond haired blue eyed American actress then I'd be totally in agreement with you. But it's not like they used Johnny Depp.
I'm in California. I only know about this movie because I happened to have discovered, just recently, who Priyanka Chopra is. Before I found out about this film I never even heard of Mary Kom. If others are like me, how are they gonna sell movie tickets about someone most people have never heard of? And what good would it do to make a movie that no one watches?
I wonder if the real Mary Kom is upset that she is being portrayed by Priyanka Chopra.
Not the bees! Not the bees!
Mary Kom is happy that she is potrayed by Priyanka Chopra
shareYou've got to be kidding. They might as well have cast a blonde-haired, blue-eyed American actress because that's about as close to Mary Kom's race as Priyanka Chopra is.
The fact that you've never heard of Mary Kom or know anything about India is irrelevant. Moreover, it's really self-centered; your whole post makes it seem as if this movie should be catering to uneducated Americans. This is a Hindi movie and it's not going to sell many tickets in the US. Also, what point is there to make a movie about someone when you're erasing their ethnicity and background? Again, Priyanka does not look like Manipuri and, if you even knew what that was, you would also think it's ridiculous. It's like casting Johnny Depp in a biopic about Barack Obama. Can you imagine the uproar over that? Would you be okay with it? With your logic, it would be fine because the most important thing is to sell tickets, not racially accurate casting.
BTW, Mary Kom being okay with Priyanka's portrayal means nothing. She's an uneducated, simple woman from a rural part of Northeast India. She's not concerned about Northeast Indians being represented and portrayed properly in the media. Only intellectuals from the NE and their supporters are.
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It's like casting Johnny Depp in a biopic about Barack Obama.
Mary Kom being okay with Priyanka's portrayal means nothing. She's an uneducated, simple woman
Thank you for enlightening me. Here I thought only two people left in the universe used that term. I guess you're the third. The other two are d*cks.I love how the OP has brought up completely valid points and you can't address any of them, but the best you can do is call him/her an "a**hole." But I guess that's not surprising considering you've already admit you have no familiarity with the topic at all...
That, I'd like to see. Or maybe Kevin Smith. But certainly not Will Smith or Jamie Foxx because such a movie could could torpedo a career. I don't think Depp or Kevin Smith need to worry about that anymore. Besides, I hear Johnny Depp is half black on his mother's side.
HOLY *beep* *beep* What an a**hole you are! I think you might be the single most arrogant, self righteous, self important d*ck heads on the planet. The opinion of the person whose life story it is doesn't matter? Only your opinion matters? I think that single statement sums up your whole existence. If people like you had their own country Piers Morgan would be president. WAD
The real question is why are you so angry about it when the real person who's supposed to care the most doesn't care. Maybe with all she's gone through as a person, and as a woman, she identifies with more than her appearance or the color of her skin. In which case, you have to wonder where the real racism is: reducing people to the color of their skin or their "race" or casting someone with another skin color.
For every lie I unlearn I learn something new - Ani Difranco
I completely agree that OP. It's sad that the "national" Indian media completely ignores the Northeast and when it gets a huge opportunity to show us, it erases their identity with films like this. It's just like Hollywood changing East Asian characters into white ones like in films such as 21.
The real question is why are you so angry about it when the real person who's supposed to care the most doesn't care. Maybe with all she's gone through as a person, and as a woman, she identifies with more than her appearance or the color of her skin. In which case, you have to wonder where the real racism is: reducing people to the color of their skin or their "race" or casting someone with another skin color.Your whole post is ridiculous.
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You nailed it!
I googled Mary Kom when i first heard Priyanka being interviewed about the movie. Using someone who is not a superstar to portray Mary Kom, just because the person look like her wouldn't have changed anything(maybe increase her admiration in India and the neighboring countries).
This is exactly what I thought when I heard that a white guy is going to play Freddie Mercury in an upcoming Biopic, but I guess Priyanka is pretty close to real Mary Com as compare to Freddie casting. Yet this whole scenario is not justified!
shareOMG, yes! Even my parents laughed at the casting.
shareI just saw it and the scenes where she experiences blatant discrimination are lessened in impact because she doesn't look NEI.
George Lucas talking about: 'Hey, give it to me, I'll fix it. I'll make 20 more of them'