Masculine Female in the Film Mary Kom

Abstract

This research proves the female masculinity of Mary Kom in the film Mary Kom. Mary Kom is a masculine protagonist who feels more comfortable behaving or looking masculine. She is attributed with masculine traits like power, courage, ambition and firm determination who dreams to live a dignified and independent life with financial prosperity on her own by waging her career in boxing. To pursue her dream of becoming the world's best boxer, Mary Kom denies her father's advice to acquire higher education. She ruptures the traditional normative culture of marriage and feminine roles and establishes dignified and independent masculine identity. She goes distant in early morning to learn boxing skills and fights with wrestler to pay for her boxing learning charge. She travels from country to country pursuing her career in boxing. Finally, she becomes the world's best millionaire champion boxer from her savings of winnings. She buys goods for her family. The cinematographic design: the various camera angles justify the determination and struggle of female protagonist and the visual effects, the lighting and the sound effect of the movie justify how Mary Kom proves to be assertive, proactive and brings reconsideration in the concept of women in the family and in the work place.