Mumbai: Actress Priyanka Chopra fought with real boxers in Mary Kom, a biopic on the five time World Champion boxer. She says it was not easy to take a full-on punch from professional boxers during the shoot.
“All my opponents in the film were real boxers,” Priyanka said here in an interview.
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- Priyanka Chopra in the Boxing Ring while shooting for Mary Kom
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- Priyanka Chopra in Mary Kom First Look
“It was very difficult to shoot with them because they are real boxers and they don’t know how to fake a punch, they had to really hit you. So I had to get hit a lot and that was really hard,” she added.
Co-produced by Sanjay Leela Bhansali and Viacom 18 Motion Pictures, “Mary Kom” shows Kom’s journey from an athlete to a boxer, opposition faced by her father to take up the sport as a profession, training with men, her fearless nature, marriage and so-called end of her boxing career.
Directed by Omung Kumar, it is slated for a September 5 release.