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Provoked (2007)

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Unable to bear the brutality and repeated rapes by her alcoholic husband, a battered Punjabi housewife and mother of two in London, sets him on fire and kills him. Charged with first-degree murder, she is sentenced to life imprisonment, where she befriends her cellmate, a wealthy white woman, from whom she learns English. Her cell mate is so moved by her story that she asks her step-brother, a highly respected ...( show more )
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Directed By
Jagmohan Mundhra
Produced By
Sunanda Murali Manohar
Music Director
A R Rahman
Screenplay
Carl Austin
Rahila Gupta
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N/A
Language/Color
Hindi / C
Release Year
2007
Genre
Drama
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Review from bollyvista
An absolute must see....more
Review from indiaglitz
AGNISAKSHI - That's the movie one remembers when the gory saga of Naveen Andrews beating, harassing and abusing his all-silence-and-hardly-revolting wife Aishwarya Rai is on the screen. Well, the character of Ash doesn't give rise to an opportunity like this. 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. Such an act works both in advantage and disadvantage of a film. Advantage, since the viewer is very much aware about the expectations...more
Review from upperstall.com
Provoked had it all - A brilliant subject matter that needed to be highlighted, a real life storybase about how one woman's bravery helped fuel a nationwide crusade and irrevocably altered British laws on domestic violence and a lead actress who for once does full justice to her role. The film is based on the book Circle of Light: An Autobiography by Kiranjit Ahluwalia and Rahila Gupta and looks at the life of Kiranjit Ahluwalia. Born into a privileged family in India, she came to England in 1979 to be married to a man she had met only once. The...more
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