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MURDER, SHE WROTE Rai is the beauty who slays the beast — her abusive husband — in Provoked
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Limited Release: May 11, 2007; Rated: Unrated; Length: 113 Minutes; Genre: Drama; With: Aishwarya Rai and Miranda Richardson
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Lisa Schwarzbaum
Lisa Schwarzbaum is a film critic for EW
Bollywood superstar Aishwarya Rai is gorgeous even in prison. She's there, we're meant to empathize, as a virtuous Indian wife and mother in London who kills her abusive husband (Lost's Naveen Andrews) in Provoked. Based on a true story, this Indian variation on a theme of The Burning Bed emphasizes the psychological freedom the inmate finds behind bars (especially with Miranda Richardson as a plucky cellmate). But director Jag Mundhra doesn't do enough to clarify that killing, however horrible the man, really isn't okay, even for beautiful women.
Posted May 16, 2007
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