India's boxing champ Hmangte Chungneijang Mary Kom now has a cartoon series featuring a superhero girl named Mary Kom Jr. Photo: AFP
India's five-time world boxing champion and Olympic bronze medallist Mary Kom is to star in animated form as the country's first superhero cartoon girl, the series' production company said.
The boxer has signed a deal with ScreenYug Creations, based in the western Indian state of Maharashtra, that will see a fictional childhood version of the national hero in Mary Kom Jr.
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