Aishwarya Rai in Provoked

PROVOKED

Provoked is an Indian movie released in 2006 shows the aggravated grudge of a wife against her husband. It is written by Carl Austin and Rahila Gupta while directed by Jag Mundhra. The issue is very common as husband’s treatment of his wife as trampled under his foot. Now it depends upon the stamina of a woman like Kiranjit after the patience of many years burnish her husband. Her fear under suppression turned into psychic effect and she makes herself oblivion of the aftermaths of this action. She provoked to take revenge from her husband of all the years back he tortures her.

Kiranjit (Aishwarya) is a Punjabi simpleton who has many dreams in her eyes and set to English to her husband. Alas! All her dreams become night mares soon after her arrival and interaction with the reality. Her husband was a drunkard, uncivilized and stereotypical husband. To find no peace in her life she resolved to kill her husband and sets him on fire. Later she is sentenced for life imprisonment. There she finds a friend in Veronica Scott (Miranda Richardson) who not only teacher her English but also convinces her to make an appeal for exemption. The story precede with the Asian social NGO Southall Black Sisters  not only raise the voice for her but also do efforts to justify her in front of jury.

The movie can be a blockbuster in the box office but opposite to the expectation it fails. The reason could be any as film has lost its impact on the audience, cinematography is not good and above all this a proverb is coming in my mind; ‘First impression is the last impression’.  As we don’t know the background of Kiranjit brutal action of burning her husband our mind starts thinking every negative aspect and lost all it later explanations. No matter we get the true information of the action which justifies her we can feel sympathy with Kiranjit but cannot develop liking or having the courage to appreciate and so movie fails to make a hit.

Otherwise if the story begins with the cruelties of husband (Naveen Andrew) towards wife and sequence focusing the miseries and hardships of an innocent wife audience would really demand the end of movie with the severe punishment of husband. Because all the scenes in which Naveen Andrew is torturing his wife really calls the hatred of viewers. With current sequence of movie it fails to evoke the admiration of audience as an impressive movie.