When Mary Kom, starring Priyanka Chopra came out in 2014, it was celebrated as a landmark sports biopic. Twelve years later, Kom feels the film, as substantial as it was, barely scratched the surface. In an interview, after her eviction from the Salman Khan-hosted Bigg Boss 20 on Saturday, the boxing champion was blunt about how her life had been portrayed on screen.

“The biopic was not real. I felt some parts of the story were not real. Only 10 percent of my struggle and hard work was shown in it,” she told Indian Express, adding that only her book shows the full picture.

A celebrated film, a disappointed subject

The film was directed by Omung Kumar and produced by Sanjay Leela Bhansali, with Priyanka Chopra in the lead role. It traced Kom’s journey from a village in Manipur to international boxing rings. Along the way it covered her marriage to Onler Kom, her comeback after becoming a mother, and her battles with a sports system that offered women boxers little backing.…