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Plot:
The movie opens with a pregnant Mary Kom (Priyanka Chopra), heading towards the hospital with her husband Onler Kom (Darshan Kumaar). Onler is mistaken for a Maoist and beaten when he tries to find a vehicle despite a curfew.
The film shifts to a flashback with Mangte Chungeijang Kom, finding boxing gloves in the remains of an air crash in 1991, which prompted her interest in boxing despite her father's disapproval.
During an early fight, she chases a boy and ends up in a boxing gym. Coach Narjit Singh is the coach of the Asian Champion Tinko Singh, and Kom tells him about her boxing aspirations. He asks her to visit the gym for next 30 days and says that he will only teach her if she is deserving enough to betaught.
She starts visiting the gym, telling her mother but not her father. Day passes and her father does not enquire about her. However, due to Kom's dedication and stubbornness, Coach Singh starts training her, suggesting she change her name to Mary Kom.
After winning the state level Championship, her father confronts her for hiding from him and taking part in the sport. He father asks her to choose between him and boxing: Kom chooses her sport.
Kom has to fight a wrestler in order to arrange money to get her household cow back, which is where she meets the footballer Onler Kom.
After watching the 2002 Women's World Amateur Boxing Championships on television, Kom reconciles with her father, who apologizes to her for not understanding her passion for the sport. Onler meanwhile proposes to her and agrees never to ask her to leave boxing. After she wins the 2006Women's World Amateur Boxing Championships, Kom agrees to marry him; however, her Coach shows his unhappiness towards Kom's marriage decision.
After her marriage, Kom becomes pregnant. Although she misses participation, she gives up her career to look after her family.
Kom's delivery in hospital is then shown,. She gives birth to twins and applies for a government job. However, when offered the position of a constable she refuses, feeling that as a world-champion boxer, she is above that position. It devastates her to learn that people no longer recognize her.
Onler encourages her to revive her boxing training. She joins the gym again, leaving her husband to look after the children at home. Her coach is still upset about her decision to marry, but Kom makes a comeback in the National Boxing Championship. Despite scoring better than her opponent, she looses the match due to the apparent partiality of the judges. Kom throws a chair in anger towards the judges, resulting in a ban. She later makes a written apology, and the official accepts it while at the same time insulting her.
Kom then asks her coach asking to train her, as he is the one who can get the best out of her. He starts training her with grueling activities. She reaches the finals of the 2008 AIBA Women's World Boxing Championships. Meanwhile, Onler Kom informs her about one of her children having a hole in their heart. In the subsequent fight, Kom fails to defend herself. After a knockout punch from her opponent, Kom sees her husband and children in the audience. She regains her strength and fights back, winning the 2008 Women's World Amateur Boxing Championships.
On the podium while accepting the medal, she learns that her son's surgery was successful. She is given the nickname "Magnificent Mary" and the film ends with the Indian flag and the national anthem.
Cast:
Priyanka Chopra as Mary Kom
Sunil Thapa as M. Narjit Singh
Darshan Kumar as Onler Kom
Robin Das as Mangte Tonpa Kom
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