Racial consciousness is commonly experienced by North-East (NE) Indians often in confrontation with dominant Indo-Aryan and Dravidian races. Invariably miffed with a popular ethnophaulism ‘chinki’, a social distance is psyched among NE Indians with East Asian Mongol features having no apparent racial similarities with the rest of Indians. ‘Racialising’ based on physical differences guides majority Indians with a quick glimpse of unfamiliar North East India through a popular cultural lens. However, the perceived one-race NE people further comprise of multiple ethnicities within. What gets represented and not in the imagination of a national identity exists in the connection between culture and psychology of the nation, as members are bound by the bearings in their mind of mutual connection (Benedict Anderson, 2006). Is there a pause in such bearings of national belongingness among the NE Indians? This paper will explore the politics of national, racial and ethnic identity formations of ‘North East’ in the Indian socio-cultural contexts and their psychological consequences. Foregrounding with vignettes of frequent queries made upon NE Indians’ nationality, an attempt has been made to illustrate the dynamics of racialisation and appropriating of cultures through ‘mainstream’ Indian cinema. The paper emphasises on the crumbling of a minority ethnic identity and its engulfment into the popularity of dominant Indian culture by critically analysing the making of M.C. Mary Kom’s biopic film, a world champion and Olympic medallist in Women’s boxing. The researcher adopts an auto-ethnographical approach to analyse Mary’s case characterised in the film, its casts, narrations, stories plotted, songs, film promotion and public reactions from majority as well as ethnic minority Indians on social media by providing the emic perspectives while examining the cursors of identity struggle. This analysis will be done in comparison with Mary Kom’s autobiography, “Unbreakable”.