Provoked [videorecording] : a true story / Media One Global Entertainment Limited ; in association with Motion Picture Partners International, British Media Fund International presents ; a film by Jag Mundhra ; screenplay, Carl Austin, Rahila Gupta ; produced by Sunanda Murali Manohar ; directed by Jag Mundhra.
Based on the book Circle of light : the autobiography of Kiranjit Ahluwalia / by Rahila Gupta & Kiranjit Ahluwalia. Based on a true story. Special features: making-of featurette; "Provoked" music video. Aishwarya Rai, Miranda Richardson, Naveen Andrews, Rebecca Pidgeon, Nandita Das, Robbie Coltrane.
Summary:
Unable to bear the brutality and repeated rapes by her alcoholic husband, Kiranjit 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 cell mate. Moved by her story, the cell mate asks her step-brother, a highly respected queen's counsel, to file her appeal.
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