To be Provoked or not to be
April 22nd, 2007 by barbara
Directed by: Jag Mundhra.
Screenplay by: Carl Austin and Rahila Gupta.
With: Aishwarya Rai, Miranda Richardson, Nandita Das and Naveen Andrews.
Provoked: A True Story is the story of a woman imprisoned for killing her abusive husband. It is based on the case of Kiranjit Ahluwalia, a Punjabi woman who married in the UK.
Kiranjit Ahluwalia is played by Aishwarya Rai who, in this film, is as beautiful as ever. Nadita Das is not as bad as she could have been. Indeed, everyone in the cast, devotes his or her energy to attempt to transform the most simplistic and ridiculous script into something that can be called cinema. Regrettably, even Miranda Richardson is powerless as the script calls for the prison bully to become a friend to Kiranjit or for the generalized party mood when she gets released.
This film tackles a serious issue and I would love to be able to say that it does that well. However, this movie is a sequence of common places, with an inconsistent script and terrible direction.
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