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Review: Mary Kom is a mediocre account of a magnificent reality

'I would have liked if the film didn't so shamelessly exploit my patriotic sentiments to afford it respect in its final scene''I would have liked something much more than this mediocre account of a...

The Best of Priyanka Chopra, RANKED!

One of the most famous Indian faces on the planet, everything Priyanka Chopra Jonas learned, she learned it on the job. 'My acting school was on set. I learned everything that I did by being thrown...

Deepika Padukone wanted to play Mary Kom on screen

Actress Deepika Padukone has revealed that she would have loved to do a film on ace boxer Mary Kom.  Filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali is making a movie based on Mangte Chungneijang...

Magnificent Mary!

In our year-end special, Rediff.com looks at the men and women who wrote the India story this year. M C Mary Kom, the Manipuri Wonder Woman, has won the World Boxing Championship five times....

Mary Teaches Veep How to Box

Vice President Muppavarapu Venkaiah Naidu, we know, likes to play badminton to keep fit, but boxing? On his visit to Imphal this week, Naidu, who is also the chairman of the Rajya Sabha, was...

Sports sagas: When real life inspired reel...

It was double whammy for Indian sports lovers over the weekend as two big biopics hit cinema screens on Friday, the 13th. Pele: Birth of a Legend and Azhar, biographical films on two sports icons,...