Lin LaIzram at Priyanka Chopra playing Mary Kom: ‘A girl from the Northeast can be thrown to represent us’
2 min readLin Labram has opened the discrimination in the film casting process on Mary Kom. This is what he said about films and Priyanka Chopra.
Lin Laishram’s models, who come from Manipur, have talked about discrimination during casting in the 2014 Mary Kom film. Lin said that even though Priyanka Chopra Jonas, who played the protagonist, worked hard for the film, a girl from the Northeast or Manipur could be thrown to represent us.
Lin Labrams Messayed the role of Bembem in the 2014 National Award winning film. Directed by Omung Kumar, this film is loosely fiction in the most famous female boxer in India Mary Kom. This tells Mary’s journey, the daughter of rice farmers in Manipur, began to become a boxer until the world champion five times.
Speaking to the free press journal, Lin said, “I admire Priyanka for his hard work, he really puts a lot of hours to look like Mary Kom, but I always feel that casting is an important step in the film. I believe in authenticity and inclusiveness, so A girl from Manipur or the Northeast can be thrown to represent us … When it comes to playing a person who excel from northeast the North East is chosen as seen in Mary Kom. On the other hand, why not throw people from the East The sea is also a normal Indian in all walks of life that we have. “
In the inclusivity in the industry, Lin said, “The latest example of large inclusivity is a family man 2. In the show, people are thrown from Tamil Nadu and speak Tamil, representing their local culture and ethnic, and has been widely accepted. . So, if the South Indian culture is acceptable, why isn’t the Northeast? “
In 2020, talking to Hindustan, he had opened racism. “It happened in my building in Mumbai. I was in the complex and a middle-aged man walked past me and called me Coronavirus and continued to shout until I left. I felt very strange because it was around February and at that time we were not very aware of the situation . I came home, read and saw what had happened in the city of China in the US and then hit me. It was very unfortunate, “he said.
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