Hot on the heels of Undertrial, a movie about child molestation, comes Provoked, another socially relevant movie about a woman's plight in a marriage of physical abuse and rape.
The good folks at Bollywood Press give us this-
“Her suffering was unimaginable. Her solution, unthinkable,” goes the tagline of Jagmohan Mundhra’s forthcoming film ‘Provoked’, which stars Aishwarya Rai in the role of a battered housewife.How long can a woman suffer physical torture and rapes by her alcoholic and sadistic husband? ‘Provoked’ is the true story of one such woman, Kiranjit Ahluwalia, who suffers silently for years and then kills her husband to gain her freedom.
As I said before, I am happy to see Bollywood take on subjects that have been taboo in the Indian culture. While husband rape may not be something you hear of in the cosmopolitan India depicted everywhere, it is a reality in poor and rural sections of India. An open discussion of these subjects will only strengthen the women to discuss these problems in the open without shame of fear of retribution.
[via Bollywood Press]
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