Priyanka Chopra recalls playing Mary Kom, says 'It's an experience I will never forget'

After global icon Priyanka Chopra completed 20 years in industry in year 2020, actress is looking back at all iconic characters she played on silver screen to date. Out of all prominent ones she has played, actress feels “hored” to have essayed role of ace boxer Mary Kom in her biopic.

Priyanka Chopra shares her views on playing Mary Kom 

Priyanka took to Instagram and shared a video while describing her emotions and feelings attached to character. video showed several BTS clips of actress practicing to step into shoes of athlete. video also showed Mary Kom training actress and teaching her certain tactics of boxing. While captioning post, actress revealed demand of character and how much she h to put in to play such an iconic character on screen. Apart from this, actress also shared her nervousness when she was offered role as she was amant in giving full justice to character.

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She captioned post and wrote, “#MaryKom #20in2020 Playing #MaryKom was t what I expected at all. weight of telling story of a living, national icon put a lo on me that I hn’t shouldered before. It was surreal in many ways. She was a world champion sportswoman who was and is still competing and is on top of her game. It was an hor but also a huge responsibility for me as an actor. It was both physically and emotionally demanding requiring an extreme amount of training to t just get into physical shape but to learn her particular style of boxing... she is left-handed and I’m right. So I h to learn to box as a southpaw which was a challenge. It's an experience I will never forget. An amazing team and an equally supportive Mary herself saw me through it all.”

Earlier, actress h shared a post on December 30 and shared a video on Instagram while looking back at all iconic characters she has played in her films in her career span of 20 years. video showcased journey of actress where she gave some jaw-dropping performances on silver screen. Through video, actress reflected on three most amazing and complex characters that she played at different points in time. While mentioning that she portrayed roles with depth, conflict, and resilience, Priyanka also gives credit to directors of three films while calling m ‘institutions in mselves.’ She revealed three characters as Kashibai from Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s directorial film Bajirao Mastani, Susanna from Vishal Bharwaj directorial film 7 Khoon Maaf, and Jhilmil from Anurag Basu’s film Barfi.   

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