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Date(s) - 17/05/2015
6:00 pm
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AFP Auditorium
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Mary Kom – directed by Omung Kumar – (Hindi) – 2014 – 122 min
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, 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 be taught. 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. Her father asks her to choose between him and boxing: Kom chooses her sport.
Mary Kom – réalisé par Omung Kumar – (Hindi) – 2014 – 122 min
Ce film est la biographie de Mary Kom, une boxeuse Indienne cinq fois championne du monde et médaille de bronze aux JO de Londres.
On y voit la naissance et les succès d’une passion qui persévère envers et contre tout, notamment un père réticent aux aspirations de sa fille. Mary Kom convainc Narjit Singh, le coach du Champion d’Asie, de l’entraîner car elle fait preuve d’une volonté et d’un engagement opiniâtre qui l’impressionnent. Suite à sa victoire au championnat régional, son père la confronte à propos de cette activité qu’elle lui a toujours cachée. Il lui laisse le choix : soit le sport, soit lui. Elle choisit la boxe.
