<p>M C 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.<br /><br /></p>.<p>"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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />"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.<br /><br />She was the only Indian boxer to have qualified for the 2012 world Olympics and won a bronze medal.<br /><br />Manipuri filmmaker Haobam Paban Kumar said it is sad for any filmmaker to find any obstacle in the release of his film.<br /><br />"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.<br /><br />There are around six theatres in Imphal which screen only locally made Manipuri films.<br /><br />Directed by debutant Omung Kumar and co-produced by Sanjay Leela Bhansali, 'Mary Kom' was released in over 1800 theatres across India on Friday.<br /><br />The film documents the boxer's journey from a small north-eastern state to winning an Olympic medal despite all odds. <br /></p>
<p>M C 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.<br /><br /></p>.<p>"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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />"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.<br /><br />She was the only Indian boxer to have qualified for the 2012 world Olympics and won a bronze medal.<br /><br />Manipuri filmmaker Haobam Paban Kumar said it is sad for any filmmaker to find any obstacle in the release of his film.<br /><br />"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.<br /><br />There are around six theatres in Imphal which screen only locally made Manipuri films.<br /><br />Directed by debutant Omung Kumar and co-produced by Sanjay Leela Bhansali, 'Mary Kom' was released in over 1800 theatres across India on Friday.<br /><br />The film documents the boxer's journey from a small north-eastern state to winning an Olympic medal despite all odds. <br /></p>