Pushed to the end of her tether, an abused Punjabi housewife kills her husband. Sentenced to life imprisonment for his murder, she soon strikes up a kinship with her a cellmate... more...that realises there may be grounds for an appeal.
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Advantages: It draws attention to a serious topic. Disadvantages: The dreadful direction, acting and writing.
After ten years of mental, physical and sexual abuse at the hands of her husband, Kiranjit Ahluwalia finally snaps. She douses him in petrol and sets fire to him as he sleeps. But despite her history of spousal abuse, she is sentenced to life imprisonment for murder. Because there was a gap of two hours between the last beating doled out by her husband and her desperate act against him, the law refuses to accept that she was provoked. So she is left ...
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Provoked is a movie based on true story and is based on domestic violence issue. It is about Kiranjit Ahluwalia from Britain, this incident happened way back in 1990.
Cast :
Aishwarya Rai, Naveen Andrews, Miranda Richardson, Nandita Das.
Directed by Jag Mundhra
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The movie starts of with showing Aishwarya Rai burning his husband Naveen Andrews alive when he is sleeping, so it confuses you why is it happening then it shows in flashback ...
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Provoked [2006]
Release Date: 2007-07-02, Rating Suitable for 15 years and over,