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Provoked
Cast Aishwarya Rai, Deborah Moore, Miranda Richardson, Nandita Das,
Naveen Andrew, Nichola Irons, Raji Jame, Rebecca Pidgeon, Robbie Coltrane,
Shaheen Khan, Steve McFadden
Director Jagmohan Mundra
Genre Drama
Year 2007
Based on the travails of a battered Indian housewife in Britain, the film is
a true story of a Punjabi-Briton who was a victim of marital abuse and was
sentenced to life imprisonment in the UK after she killed her husband.
Unable to bear the brutality and repeated rapes by her alcoholic husband, Kiran
Ahluwalia a 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. Moved by her story the cellmate
asks her step-brother, a highly respected queen's counsel to file her appeal.
Her case comes to the notice of a group of south Asian social workers. They
bring her plight to the attention of the media by organizing rallies to gather
public support for her freedom. She is ultimately freed by the judicial system.
   
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