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Mary
Kom's
hometown
is
missing
the
screening
of
the
Priyanka
Chopra-starrer
biopic
on
the
boxing
champion
as
no
theatre
in
Manipur
is
screening
the
film
due
to
a
ban
by
insurgency
outfits.
"I
feel
very
sad
that
people
everywhere
are
seeing
the
film
made
on
my
life
but
not
the
people
in
Manipur.
It
is
risky
to
release
it
here
so
I
think
it
is
better
not
to
do
it.
But
me
and
the
government
tried
their
best
to
get
it
released," Mary
told
PTI
from
Imphal.
Ever
since
September,
2000,
Hindi
films
are
banned
in
Manipur
by
separatist
militant
group
Revolutionary
Peoples
Front
which
claims
that
Bollywood
goes
against
Manipuri
values.
Mary
said
although
her
own
family
has
seen
the
film
at
its
Mumbai
premiere
but
her
friends,
relatives,
boxing
students
and
neighbours
are
missing
the
biopic.
"They
all
really
want
to
see
it
but
there
is
no
option
before
us,"
lamented
the
only
woman
boxer
to
have
won
a
medal
in
all
the
six
world
championships.
She
was
the
only
Indian
boxer
to
have
qualified
for
the
2012
world
Olympics
and
won
a
bronze
medal.
Manipuri
filmmaker
Haobam
Paban
Kumar
said
it
is
sad
for
any
filmmaker
to
find
any
obstacle
in
the
release
of
his
film.
"Besides
the
insurgency
issue
I
think
theatres
here
are
not
technically
equipped
to
show
a
mainstream
Bollywood
film
because
they
only
have
a
digital
projection
system
to
show
movies
from
DVDs,"
he
said.
There
are
around
six
theatres
in
Imphal
which
screen
only
locally
made
Manipuri
films.
Directed
by
debutant
Omung
Kumar
and
co-produced
by
Sanjay
Leela
Bhansali,
'Mary
Kom' was
released
in
over
1800
theatres
across
India
on
Friday.
The
film
documents
the
boxer's
journey
from
a
small
north-eastern
state
to
winning
an
Olympic
medal
despite
all
odds.