Priyanka Chopra Agrees Mary Kom's Role Should Have Gone To 'Someone From Northeast' And Not Her

Casting in Bollywood has always come under the scanner. Recently, people pointed a transgender could have been cast instead of Vaani Kapoor in?Chandigarh Kare Aashiqui. Earlier, similar questions were raised when Priyanka Chopra was cast in the role Mary Kom.

Actress Lin Laishram had also said that it was 'heartbreaking' to accept someone from North East wasn't cast as Mary Kom in the film.?

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Now, Priyanka Chopra has also stated that someone from North East would have been a better choice for Mary Kom.?

"In hindsight," Priyanka said and added, "The part should have probably gone to someone from the Northeast. But I was just greedy as an actor to get a chance to tell her story, because as a woman, she inspired me so much."

For the unversed, model and aspiring actress Lin Laishram had also auditioned for Omung Kumar's Mary Kom, but eventually, the role went to Priyanka Chopra, and Laishram ended up playing Mary Kom's friend.

"As an actor, that self-centered, egoistic actor tells me that I should have been... But it could have been anybody from the North East. We have many great actors. I want to be generous here and say that many, many actors could have done this. But the casting and the whole team decided on someone else. It's heartbreaking, but we are coming along, and I hope that this does not happen again," she said.?

Lin Laishram gained critical claim for her 2019 film Axone.??

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