Priyanka Chopra congratulates Mary Kom on Asian Games win

MUMBAI: Calling her "a true champ", actress Priyanka Chopra today congratulated boxer Mary Kom for winning the gold medal at the ongoing Asian Games.

"I am more proud than I have been for a very, very long time. I am proud to be in the country where Mary Kom belongs," Priyanka, who starred in a biopic on Kom, said.

Kom, 31, defeated Kazakhstan's Zhaina Shekerbekova in the flyweight (51KG) summit clash in Incheon, Korea to become the first Indian woman boxer to clinch a gold medal at the Asian Games.

Priyanka, 32, took to Twitter to express her happiness. "Yaaaaaay!!! Now that's called Woman Power! Mary Kom gets gold... makes India Proud & shows us that we can achieve anything! (sic)".

The 'Fashion' star, who became friends with Kom while working on the biopic, said the boxer was her hero.

"So proud of u @mangtec you r a true champ!! My Shero! Be Unbeatable Be Unbreakable Be MaryKom (sic)," she wrote.

Film's director Omung Kumar also congratulated Kom.