Provoked: Based on a Shocking True Story

It's been a bad week with lots of happening at the same time. Havent had time for studies or movies either. Anyway, I was reading a chapter for my feminist theory class and a movie was constantly at the back of mind.

The chapter was on domestic violence and the movie called provoked suited it very well. It told the story of a young Indian woman who gets married to a guy based in the United Kingdom. What started off as a fairy tale wedding for her, ends up in a nightmare. The woman, who was physically, mentally and sexually abused by her husband for ten years, finally decides to end it all by killing him.

This movie created a huge impact in the south asian community becuase what it portrayed was a reality unknown to many people at the time. Many people from small town get their daughters married to men based in foreign countries thinking theitr daughters are going to have a good life. Unfortunately, most of these marriages end in the abuse of women and often death.

Growing up, I had seen many of these news splashing all over the major newspapers and channels.

This movie does infact a great job of addressing the problem.