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	BBC - Movies - interview - Aishwarya Rai
		Provoked is her latest English language film, in which she takes the role of Kiranjit Alhuwalia, a Punjabi housewife who killed her husband, but was subsequently freed by the British judicial system.
		When the film was given a special screening at last year's Indian International Film Academy awards the Indian media suggested that it should be dubbed in other Indian languages and be seen across the different states.
		Provoked deserves that platform, to be made accessible to a wider audience.
	www.bbc.co.uk /films/2007/04/02/aishwarya_rai_provoked_2007_interview.shtml (735 words)

	Provoked (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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 film is currently is the final stages of post-production, and is slated for release in Febuary 2007.
		This film was screened at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival in April, and was given much praise by the international media.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Provoked_(film) (470 words)

	Sports Violence
		Provoked college students who had been asked to imagine themselves as the victor of the filmed fight shown to them were later most aggressive toward the person who had insulted them.
		Provoked college males were shown a prize fight film and asked to think of themselves either as the winner, or referee, or with no particular role in mind.
		Provoked men shown a supposedly real fight (compared to a supposedly staged one) were more likely to maintain a high level of arousal during the movie and then give their tormentor stronger punishment afterwards.
	www.modern-psychiatry.com /sports_violence.htm (4062 words)

	Uprising of 34b
		First, she began to make the film the centerpiece of her organizing efforts, which led her to understand how powerful film could be, particularly when narrated by the voices of working-class people similar the ones she was trying to reach.
		The film’s impact on the textile manufacturing elite is not clear, but publicity about the film’s production may have been responsible for the manufacturers association’s decision to produce a film portraying their own version of regional labor movement history.
		In a few cases, exposure to the film stimulated individual citizens to research how their own community was affected by the 1934 strike, which in turn led to awareness of other strikes and labor union activity in the 1930s and later.
	www.ejumpcut.org /archive/jc45.2002/whiteman/uprising2.html (2407 words)

	AISHWARYA-FOREVER [dot] COM - Queen of Bollywood turns into battered wife
		Film director Jagmohun Mundhra yesterday rejected the accusation that he was turning the serious issue of domestic violence into “cheap entertainment” by casting an actress as glamorous as Aishwarya Rai as a battered housewife.
		One suggestion is that Aishwarya could identify with the film’s theme of domestic violence because she had been slow to end her own much-talked-about and allegedly abusive relationship with her former boyfriend, Salman Khan.
		The name of the film, Provoked, refers to the English “law on provocation”, which was softened, as a result of “Regina v Ahluwalia”, to take account of the abuse many women suffer in the period prior to the act of killing.
	www.aishwarya-forever.com /news/archives/may2006/may-15.html (792 words)

	I Shot Andy Warhol (Philosophical Films)
		His films were intentionally crude in both form and substance and, like the pornography industry, we might ask whether he exploited some of the people that he worked with.
		The film is about Valerie Solanas a crazed, ultra feminist who shot Andy Warhol because she was convinced that he was stealing a play that she had written.
		One of the strengths of the film was the alternating scenes between the narrative of the film and the blank and white scenes of Valarie Solanas reading excerpts from her S.C.U.M. Manifesto.
	www.philfilms.utm.edu /1/ishot.htm (1517 words)

	Interview with Julia Jentsch, In Film Australia
		Hans Weingartner’s new film is the story of three politically conscious and attractive twenty-something Germans, who work mundane jobs by day, and break into the houses of the ridiculously wealthy at night.
		Julia believes the film aims to “motivate people to think about what is going on in our society at the moment”, and that this is purpose behind the directors vision, as well offering a very entertaining viewing experience of course.
		Weingartner shot the film entirely digitally on hand held cameras, and Julia describes this as a very liberating process, “it’s cheaper, and you have much more time” – cheaper for the filmmaker and easy for the cast on the set, as Weingartner was happy for them to do a lot of takes.
	www.infilm.com.au /features/julia_jentsch (615 words)

	Van Damme, 'Provoked' and more at Dubai IIFA - Printer Friendly Page - Entertainment - Telugu Portal (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Apart from the awards ceremony, which is on June 16, a highlight of the event is the screening of Jagmohan Mundhra's much talked about film "Provoked" starring Aishwarya Rai and based on the true story of a woman who is a victim of domestic violence.
		Films like "Lagaan", "Yuva" and "Parineeta" were premiered at IIFA events in the last six years.
		The film has the true global essence - it is the combination of big Bollywood and Hollywood stars and the script is global too," said Mundhra who was also present at the press conference.
	www.teluguportal.net /modules/news/print.php?storyid=5209 (441 words)

	Provoked postponed again
		Even though the film has Aishwarya Rai, distributors are wary of touching a raw, emotional film at a time when comedy films are flourishing at the box office.
		Provoked is quite in demand and that’s why they decided to have a mainstream release.
		The film deals with her fight for justice and freedom along with a group of social workers called the Southall Black Sisters.
	www.mid-day.com /hitlist/2006/august/142672.htm (519 words)

	Eros Entertainment \| Bollywood (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Provoked, which is one of the most talked about movie this season, is a woman centric film based on the true story of a Punjabi woman named Kiranjit Ahluwalia who moves to England and marries a man who subjects her to violent physical abuse.
		Provoked is directed by Jag Mundhra and casts Aishwarya Rai (Bride and Prejudice, Devdas, Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam) in the lead role.
		Provoked received an excellent response when it was screened at this year’s Cannes Film Festival and more recently to Patricia Hewitt, British Culture Minister.
	www.erosentertainment.com /provoked.html (410 words)

	Aishwarya Rai Provoked Bollywood Cannes Kiranjit Ahluwalia
		Bollywood actress, Aishwarya Rai, could quickly become a mainstream film star based on her portrayal as a battered wife in the critically acclaimed film Provoked.
		The film has already premiered at Cannes and was also featured in the much less prominent IIFA ceremony in Dubai.
		the film is purely based on the ideas that emerged out of the event its purely a cinematic representation based on the events.
	www.miamipoetryreview.com /2006/06/aishwarya-rai-provoked200606.html (746 words)

	Mathieu Kassovitz - Biography - Moviefone
		The violence of this film was magnified in Kassovitz's Assassins, a 1997 film that provoked both raves and rants for its unflinchingly graphic content.
		He also had a starring role in the film, which was notable for its poignant yet comic exploration of Parisian race relations, an exploration that would later be more brutally manifested in La Haine.
		The film was a critical success and the adulation it received proved to be good preparation for Kassovitz's next project, La Haine (1995).
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/mathieu-kassovitz/37013/biography (725 words)

	Defence of Stone - theage.com.au
		No film maker, if his critics are to be believed, has quite so much blood on his hands as its director, Oliver Stone.
		The film sailed to the top of the US box office, with Variety dubbing it "the most hallucinatory and anarchic picture made at a major Hollywood studio in the last 20 years.
		His film, too, was derided as hypocrisy in action: a supposed satire on screen violence that wallowed in two hours of stylised atrocity and then berated the viewer for getting off on it.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/01/01/1041196685081.html (1359 words)

	BizHat.com - Provoked Review. Aishwarya Rai, Naveen Andrews, Nandita Das, Robbie Coltrane, Miranda Richardson, Rebecca ...
		For instance the domestic violence inflicted on Kiranjit isn't shown in one single stretch in the film but comes out through regular flashback installments when she is in prison, thereby not making the impact of the agony shown, very intense.
		Provoked is that kind of a film where you know the end but what still makes you sit till the end is how the film reaches to its end.
		Aishwarya (despite carrying a disgusted look on her face throughout the film, in accordance with her character) is poignant and much emotive than her plastic doll performance in Dhoom 2.
	movies.bizhat.com /review_provoked.php (615 words)

	9/29/02
		This imbalanced composition Soviet film was however not the only source of Vertov’s disillusionment with the Soviet film industry.
		The first attack that Vertov himself leveled against the film industry was aimed at the traditional format of drama and plot based films, requiring actors.
		As the film reaches its finale, the move speeds up to a frenzied pace, and the audience and meta-audience are both bombarded with images of dancers harkening back to the traditional experience of the theater.
	www.duke.edu /~ajc13/vertovdraft1wp.html (3214 words)

	The Hindu News Update Service
		Provoked grossed 1,40,204 pounds with just 35 prints as against 1,25,084 pounds for Namesake with 59 prints in its opening weekend, thus giving a nearly double screen average of 4,005 pounds as against 2,120 pounds for Namesake.
		Provoked is the true life story of Kiranjit Ahluwalia (played by Aishwarya Rai), the Indian woman who overturned the British judicial system and transformed the meaning of 'provocation' in the case of physically abused women, winning justice for women subjected to domestic violence, rape and sexual abuse.
		The film, directed by Jagmohan Mundhra and based on Ahluwalia's autobiography Circle of Light, follows her lonely struggle in an abusive ten-year marriage, her retaliation through the murder of her violent husband and efforts of women activists to bring her justice.
	www.hinduonnet.com /holnus/009200704200313.htm (288 words)

	H-France Reviews
		With argument over the film filling the papers and air waves, in May and June of 1985, the French High Authority on audio-visual communications convened a “Jury of Honor,” consisting of five surviving members of the Resistance (all non-communist, and including Raymond and Lucie Aubrac), to advise it on the advisability of broadcasting the film.
		Unanimously, the jury voted that the allegations of the film were unproven and ultimately defamatory, “an operation of disinformation with obvious and shocking political intent.” Its members signed a statement declaring that, were they in charge of the network, they would not allow transmission of the film.
		The film also attests to the importance of the socially marginal in the drama of occupation and resistance, as the widely-shared impression of social rupture enabled new actors and new actions.
	www.h-france.net /vol1reviews/young3.html (2927 words)

	The Hindu News Update Service
		London, April 4 (PTI): Bollywood star Aishwarya Rai came in for praise for her role in the British film "Provoked" on the life of an NRI Kiranjit Ahluwalia who set her husband afire 11 years ago after suffering at his hand for a decade.
		Provoked stars former Miss World Aishwarya Rai as Ms Kiranjit Ahluwalia, alongside the British actors Miranda Richardson, who plays a prison cellmate, and Robbie Coltrane, who plays the barrister who helped Kiranjit with her landmark appeal.
		According to Sunanda Murali Manohar, producer of the film, Rani Jethmalanij, leading lawyer and activist, told her after seeing the film that the film had accomplished in two hours what she had been trying to portray for 20 years - marital violence and suffering faced by women.
	www.hindu.com /thehindu/holnus/009200704040921.htm (692 words)

	Political Film Society - The Green Mile
		Only two characters in the film are portrayed as malicious -- Percy Wetmore (played by Doug Hutchison), who has used political connections to work on death row, and William "Wild Bill" Wharton (played by Sam Rockwell), a psychopathic killer.
		All the rest in the film are portrayed as sensitive human beings.
		Shortly after the film was released, Florida decided to abandon the electric chair, thus making the Supreme Court case moot, but the death penalty will continue -- by lethal injection in the manner portrayed in Dead Man Walking.
	www.geocities.com /~polfilms/greenmile.html (491 words)

	Lee Siegel on Culture
		At the same time, this comforting tale everyone is spinning about ordinary men and women who desperately did not want to die makes the passengers who didn't take part in the rebellion disappear, as if their quiet, petrified suffering were something shameful alongside the actions of the band of resisters.
		I'm responding to the commentary the film has provoked.) But the passengers who stayed in their seats were just as attached to life.
		It has nothing in common with the film I said I'd like to see, which was a film with no action in it, only a respect for the fragility and preciousness of human life, which the jihadists entirely lack.
	www.tnr.com /blog/culture?pid=15065 (887 words)

	Dressing down for the Hulk - theage.com.au
		No one at Marvel will admit that specialist film websites are forcing Hollywood studios to make changes to the portrayal of comic book characters, but they do accept that their influence is now growing in a number of ways.
		Her experience was posted on the site, fans rebelled and the film's director, Peter Jackson, subsequently invited Challis on to the set as an apology.
		Although he sometimes gives a film a zero rating on the site, he says his approach is different from the likes of US-based independent film fans.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/09/10/1062902100405.html (972 words)

	The Film Journal...Passionate and informed film criticism from an auteurist perspective.
		Fredric Rissover studied English at the University of Cincinnati and film and journalism at the University of Iowa.
		The effort yielded a film with interviews and filmed episodes featuring over a dozen gay and lesbian Jews in the U.S. and Israel, some open and others who are filmed in silhouette with their voices changed.
		Included in the film are DuBowskiís friend Mark, persevering and optimistic despite numerous setbacks, and Michelle, the daughter of a Hasidic cantor, who was disowned by her family for being a Lesbian.
	www.thefilmjournal.com /issue3/tremblingbeforeg-d.html (1109 words)

	MediaRights \| Articles \| Using Grassroots Documentary Films for Political Change
		The film also provoked labor activists and historians to undertake further research into events in their own localities, and this led to greater awareness of other strikes and labor activities in the 1930s and after.
		The film is also regarded by some activists as contributing to the momentum toward the eventual passage of a Mining Moratorium bill in the Wisconsin State Legislature, which was one of the specific goals of the coalition of anti-mining groups.
		Because so many people appeared in the film, it essentially “dumped sources into laps of reporters,” and the general respect for the historical accuracy of the film meant that these sources could not be simply dismissed as vehicles for pro-union propaganda.
	www.mediarights.org /news/articles/using_grassroots_documentary_films_for_political_change.php (1481 words)

	Film Reviews & Movie Showtimes \| 'Provoked'
		One is that she cannot act, and the other is "Who cares?" Since Ash is one of the most beautiful women on the planet, she has plentiful decorative qualities to coast upon, but she's slightly beyond the limits of her skills in Provoked.
		The film is based on the real-life case of Kiranjit Ahluwalia, which became a landmark in British jurisprudence.
		Provoked (Unrated; 113 min.), directed by Jag Mundhra, written by Carl Austin and Rahila Gupta, based on a book by Gupta and Kiranjit Ahluwalia, photographed by Madhu Ambat, starring Aishwarya Rai, opens May 18 at Camera 12 in San Jose.
	www.metroactive.com /metro/05.16.07/provoked-0720.html (622 words)

	Provoked impresses PM’s wife - bollywood news : glamsham.com
		A special screening of the film Provoked starring Aishwarya Rai was organized for the Prime Minister’s wife Mrs.
		Provoked, is the true life depiction of Kiranjit Ahluwalia (played by Aishwarya Rai), the Asian woman who overturned the British judicial system and transformed the meaning of “provocation” in the case of physically abused women, winning justice for women subjected to domestic violence, rape and sexual abuse.
		The film, based on Ahluwalia’s autobiography Circle of Light by Rahila Gupta, follows her lonely struggle in an abusive 10-year marriage, her retaliation through the murder of her violent husband and the efforts of women activists Southall Black Sisters to bring her justice.
	www.glamsham.com /movies/scoops/07/mar/26_provoked_aishwarya_rai.asp (231 words)

	What got Ash Provoked and how
		The film is inspired by the real life trial of Kiranjit Ahluwalia - an Indian origin wife who killed her abusive husband of 10 years and won her freedom after serving a three-year prison sentence.
		While Aishwarya made sure that she did not end up doing injustice to Kiranjit’s character, Kiranjit too seems to be satisfied with the film's portrayal of her trauma.
		The film was well received by international media at the sidelines of the Cannes film festival last year, and some initial curiosity can be expected in England too.
	www.ibnlive.com /news/look-what-got-ash-provoked-and-how/37592-8.html (464 words)

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