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Thursday,
March
29,
2007
Set
in
London,
Provoked
is
the
traumatic
story
of
a
battered
Punjabi
housewife
and
mother
of
two,
Kiranjit
Ahluwalia
(Aishwarya
Rai).
Unable
to
bear
the
brutality
of
her
alcoholic
husband
Deepak
Ahluwalia
(Naveen
Andrews),
she
takes
revenge
by
setting
him
on
fire.
Charged
with
first-degree
murder,
she
is
sentenced
to
life
imprisonment,
where
she
befriends
her
cell-mate,
a
wealthy
white
woman
Veronica
Scott
(Miranda
Richardson),
from
whom
she
learns
English.
Her cell mate is so moved by her story that she asks her step-brother Lord Edward Foster (Robbie Coltrane), a highly respected queen's counsel to file her appeal. Her case comes to the notice of a motley group of south Asian social workers running a under funded organization called South all Black Sisters. 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 in a landmark case called Regina vs. Ahluwalia that redefined the word PROVOCATION in the case of battered women. She was reunited with her children and subsequently gives an award by the Prime Minister's wife for her crusade against domestic violence.
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