PROVOKED

Provoked is a forthcoming British based English film directed by Jag Mundhra.

 It stars Aishwarya Rai, Naveen Andrews, Miranda Richardson, Robbie Coltrane, Nandita Das and Steve McFadden.

Cinematography for the film is being handled by Madhu Ambat. The film's score and soundtrack has been composed by A. R. Rahman, and the theme song for the film, "Alive", was composed by Rahman and sung by Karen David, who has a small cameo in the film. Shot in London.

The movie tells the harrowing tale of a woman who is abused by her husband.

Unable to bear the brutality and repeated rapes by her alcoholic husband, a battered Punjabi housewife Kiranjit Ahluwalia (Aishwarya Rai) 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, a wealthy white woman, from whom she learns English. Her cell mate is so moved by her story that she asks her step-brother, 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 founded organization called Southall Black Sisters. They bring her plight to the attention of the media by organizing rallies to gather public support for her freedom.