Provoked: A True Story (2006)

User Rating:

6.4/10   

Director:

Jag Mundhra

Writers:

Carl Austin (writer)
Rahila Gupta (writer)

Release Date:

6 April 2007 (UK)

Genre:

Drama

Tagline:

In prison she found freedom

Plot:

It's the true story of a Punjabi woman named Kiranjit Ahluwalia who leaves India to marry a London-based guy, only to be badly abused. She ends up in prison for murdering her abusive husband.

Plot Keywords:

Prison | Murder | Domestic Violence | Court | Police

Cast

Aishwarya Rai	...	Kiranjit Ahluwalia
Miranda Richardson	...	Veronica Scott
Naveen Andrews	...	Deepak Ahluwalia
Ray Panthaki	...	Ravi
Nandita Das	...	Radha Dalal
Robbie Coltrane	...	Lord Edward Foster
Raji James	...	Solicitor Anil Gupta
Leena Dhingra	...	Sheela Ahluwalia
Claire Louise Amias	...	Young Nurse
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Wendy Albiston	...	Guard Miller
John Alford	...	Chris Jones - Legal Aid Solicitor
Freya Berry	...	Dr. Emma Stillman
Lorraine Bruce	...	Doreen
Ashwani Chopra	...	News Vendor
Karen Shenaz David	...	Asha (as Karen David)
Maxine Finch	...	Lula
Nicholas Irons	...	Police Constable James O'Connell
Judith Jacob	...	Guard Tyler
Shaheen Khan	...	Jamila
Steve McFadden	...	DS Ron Meyers
Deborah Moore	...	Jackie
Harpreet Singh Nandra	...	Sandeep D. Ahluwalia
Rahul Nath	...	Doctor
Raoul Pattra	...	Rajeev D. Ahluwalia
Rebecca Pidgeon	...	Miriam
Naila Raza	...	Kiranjit's sister
Marsha Rice	...	Mrs. Byron
Guy Siner	...	Prosecutor
Christina Thornton	...	Commander Kate Halloran
Julie T. Wallace	...	Gladys

Also Known As:

Provoked (UK) (short title)

Runtime:

113 min

Country:

UK | India

Language:

English | Punjabi

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

UK:15 | Ireland:16 | Malaysia:U | Malaysia:18PL

Filming Locations:

London, England, UK

Trivia:

In order to appeal to those who don't speak English in India, the film was dubbed in Hindi, Punjabi, Tamil, and Telugu.

Movie is good/bad It does not matter..it matters how you view it with facts.

The first thing I noticed about the main review made by a person (with subject Awful propaganda, awfully done with an awful message) made on this movie is by mentioning that this is based on a real story and the woman should have done in a different way by calling police or leaving her husband. I can see the person is ignorant of how Indian women treat these kind of issues. A person from other country can not understand this situation, as I personally experienced this kind of situation with a woman with whom I was very close when I was a child. I have not only seen this woman, but seen several of my neighbor ladies having the same situation. It was very common thing to physically abuse/beat their wives in some rural parts of India and they still be obedient to their husband and husband's family. I understand that fact that movie is bad in narrating the story as it could not briefly depict the situation of that Indian woman. It really gets into you when you see the situation in real, I believe she did the mistake too, but most of the times, Indian women consider its their own mistake and be quiet about it. And I say its not always true for all Indian women, some are more educated and feel confident enough to find a solution to the problem and drag it onto the court. Some don't at all. One must stay in this situation and see what goes around in that culture and in those situations to accurately review a story. As another male, I stood in those situations where males were dominating with physical power over women, watching trying to find whats the solution. I could not do anything as a child,I pity on those women who are going though this situation. We being on a computer and read IMDb.com would never understand what goes on in real and in some homes.