Provoked

I'm surprised this movie didn't have a bigger release. I was expecting it to be your run of the mill battered woman story, sort of like a take on the Burning Bed with Farrah Fawcett. What it is is a drama... Full review

I cannot believe the director messed up a truly amazing story. Aishwarya Rai's performance is one of the worst i ve seen. She over acts too much and you dont feel any sympathy for her character because of how she plays... Full review

this is an amazing story, it just needed a new directer and script if only they just put it in a hollywood story!! it wud be such a hit, the sceene where she remembers killing her husband cud have been outstanding,... Full review

This movie was everything that I though it would be. The performances were amazing. Aishwarya Rai was amazing and she played the role of a true woman really well. Miranda Richardson was outstanding and added a lot of feeling to the... Full review

Ths film Provoked is excellent movie.Really a very touching story...the emotional quotient is Consistently high.The dialogues beautifully delivered by the stunning Aishwarya.....her eyes were very expressive...Aishwarya has has done a very good a good job in this film....anyway all of the... Full review

This movie is very sentimental and touching as it tells the story of an abused woman which we see very often in this world.... Full review

Well, the story was very good and the acting was excellent.... A movie that must watch... especially to those married couple...... Full review

Whatever the obstruction should be cleared up asap. excellent movie for awareness of Domestic violence in the indian community.... Full review

It teached couples a good lesson and worths watchin. We could learn alot form the movie about abuse and the effects were really good... Full review

Thankfully, the scenes depicting violence are underplayed and not too graphic, the beating scenes brief but effective.....It is the story of Kiranjit's trauma and triumph, the incredible tale of her abuse and acquittal.....Miranda Richardson is just great.....This could well be her best performance till date..... ... Full Review

There's an interesting movie in here, too, about the isolation of Indian brides brought to a new country by strange new husbands and mistreated....It's a sympathetic performance but not a compelling one.....glamorized fiction that rises to the level of a good Lifetime movie --.... ... Full Review

Rai is beautifully captivating from tragedy to triumph, and could have played the part with no spoken dialogue whatsoever, given her soulfully expressive eyes. Despite what may sound at first blush like a Bollywood remake of "The Burning Bed", "Provoked" is a deeply touching film, perfectly paced with believable performances from all involved. ... Full Review

Relatively good direction and story is portrayed fairly well. Great performance by Aishwariya Rai and Andrews adds grace to the movie. Rest of the cast has done a good job. s spousal nightmare, cut deep and hard into the narrative. ... Full Review

Let's not talk too much about the storyline and the basic plot as film maker Jag Mundhra and his team of PR and media planners have made the world enough aware about what is in store in PROVOKED. She sets her husband on fire only to find herself behind the bar and later being released with help of her sympathetic jail inmate [Miranda Richardson] and a social activist organization represented by Nandita Das. ... Full Review

MUMBAI: Aishwarya Rai, the gorgeous bollywood babe who has traversed a long way from being a beauty queen to becoming a B-town icon, has agreed to play the role of a lawyer in director Jagmohan Mundhra's upcoming flick for free. ... Full Article

The brain behind the film 'Provoked', Jagmohan Mundhra is ecstatic. The reason he has received an invite from a university in Germany to speak on empowerment of woman. ... Full Article

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan along with Provoked director Jagmohan Mundhra has been invited by a university in Germany to speak on women empowerment and domestic abuse, which is incidentally the theme of the film too. ... Full Article

Filmmaker Jagmohan Mundhra, whose Aishwarya Rai-starrer "Provoked" received much critical acclaim, is currently working on a thriller that has been titled "Chase". The film, which was earlier titled "Begunah", stars Udita Goswami, popular television actor Anuj Saxena, Sameer Kochar, Aditya... ... Full Article

Deepa Mehta is fed up of being asked if her film Heaven On Earth is similar to Jagmohan Mundhra's Provoked. "I am tired of being asked how I feel about Provoked . ... Full Article

By Subhash K Jha Thu, 26 Mar 2009 When the first slap comes, it hits the audience hard across the face. Spousal abuse as a theme is not new to cinema. ... Full Article