Provoked a true story

Title
: 
Provoked a true story

Edition
: 
Platinum [ed.]

Publication Information
: 
London : Eros International, c2007.

Physical Description
: 
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

General Note
: 
Based on the book Circle of light : the autobiography of Kiranjit Ahluwalia / by Rahila Gupta & Kiranjit Ahluwalia.
 
Based on a true story.
 
Videodisc release of the 2006 motion picture.
 
Special features: making-of featurette; "Provoked" music video.

Personal Subject
: 
Ahluwalia, Kiranjit-Drama.

Subject Term
: 
Rape victims -- England -- Drama.
 
Wife abuse -- Drama.
 
Abused women -- Drama.
 
Abused wives -- Drama.

Genre
: 
Feature films.

Added Author
: 
Mundhra, Jag, 1948-2011
 
Gupta, Rahila.
 
Bachchan, Aishwariya Rai.
 
Richardson, Miranda.
 
Andrews, Naveen, 1969-
 
Pidgeon, Rebecca.
 
Das, Nandita, 1969-
 
Coltrane, Robbie.
 
Ahluwalia, Kiranjit.
 
Gupta, Rahila. Circle of light.

Summary
: 
Unable to bear the brutality and repeated rapes by her alcoholic husband, Kiranjit Ahluwalia, a Punjabi housewife and mother of two in London, sets him on fire and kills him. Charged with first-degree murder, she is sentenced to life imprisonment, where she befriends her cell mate. Moved by her story, the cell mate asks her step-brother, a highly respected queen's counsel, to file her appeal.

System Details
: 
DVD, ALL REGIONS, ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN (16:9) PRESENTATION; DUAL LAYER; DOLBY DIGITAL 5.1 SURROUND; NTSC.

Language Note
: 
IN ENGLISH WITH SOME PANJABI; ENGLISH SUBTITLES.


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