Naveen in a new movie!...I think

[Cassis1]

I found this info over on the Fuselage and traced it back to its source, an AR fansite.

Aishwarya [Rai] and Naveen have signed on to portray husband and wife in a film called Provoked. The film will be directed by Jag Mundhra and is an account of the true-life events that changed the laws in Britain in favour of recognising abuse of women leading them to murder their husband. Production is slated to begin at the end of April 2005 in London. Sources: www.naveen-andrews.net/ (http://www.naveen-andrews.net/) , www.aishwarya-forever.com/ (http://www.aishwarya-forever.com/)

Given the subject matter, I think we can safely say that Naveen's character in this movie will make his evil king in Kama Sutra look positively cuddly. :eek

I can't find a thing about this on IMDb (not in Naveen's, Rai's, or Mundhra's pages), even though it lists of ton of Rai's projects through 2006. I gotta say that the choice of director doesn't make me optimistic; looks like his oeuvre is C-grade "erotic thrillers," if you know what I mean.

Mundhra's IMDb page: www.imdb.com/name/nm0612730/ (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0612730/)

He seems like a REALLY weird fit with Rai, who apparently refuses even to kiss onscreen. (Which is too bad, because otherwise I'm sure this would include sex between Naveen and "the most beautiful woman in the world." :hat )

I don't know what to think, or if this is more rumor than fact--but if it's true I'm thrilled that (even if this looks like a terrible movie in the making) Naveen is still getting big-screen roles, and this sounds as if he'll get a good amount of screentime. And it's great that he and Rai get along well enough to do multiple pictures together, because she's supposedly on the brink of becoming as huge in the English-speaking world as she is in India.

[may2]

If he's the abusive husband, he'll get killed about half-way through and the rest of the film will deal with her trial. But half-a-movie is better than none.

[Van Gogh 2001]

I am happy to see Naveen get a part in any movie. It certainly sounds better than the one rumoured one several
months back (I saw it on a Yahoo India newspaper website)
...that one looked terrible from the get go....

[Nevada IHJ]

They were in Bride and Prejudice together...but it was pretty bad unfortunately...

[teaspoons]

We were just discussing this very topic in the basement, you should come down a start a new thread so we can explore this movie more in depth.

[may2]

Teaspoons, I ventured down into the basement to look for the discussion you mentioned and couldn't find it. Where might it be? It's frightening down there.

[Cassis1]

{blinks} {stares}

Were we just invited to go down into the basement?

I thought that they had guards standing on the stairs with flamethrowers to try to keep the unworthy out.

[azteclady]

Cassis, you are one smart cookie!

May 2, you might want to be slightly skeptical abomut invitations to the Basement. Apparently, the fresh meat has run out - much like the boars in the LOST island.

[Cassis1]

Ooh, does that mean that the cannibalistic bacchanalia has started?

Because that? Would be worth watching.

[moonshadow707]

Some confirmation about "Provoked" from Ash:
mid-day.com/hitlist/2005/may/108654.htm (http://mid-day.com/hitlist/2005/may/108654.htm)

[Cassis1]

Thanks, moonshadow!

Miranda Richardson. Hmm. That adds a little more class to the production. This sounds as if it could be some good exposure for Naveen (even if he does get murdered 1/3 of the way through, LOL).

[moonshadow707]

A little bit more info:
ww1.mid-day.com/columns/amit_roy/2005/may/109005.htm (http://ww1.mid-day.com/columns/amit_roy/2005/may/109005.htm)
Scroll down to Circle of Jag.

Says it's based on Circle of Light (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0006383297/026-7520432-4544431) by Rahila Gupta.

Maybe they'll have flashbacks during the trial or prison time, so Naveen won't be totally out of the picture halfway through it.

[Mattie]

Thanks again moon.

[SayidRocks]

I know what you mean... I ventured in there once and have yet to talk myself into going back again... :(


>Cassis1

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> Re: Naveen in a new movie!...I think
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>Were we just invited to go down into the basement?

>I thought that they had guards standing on the stairs with >flamethrowers to try to keep the unworthy out.


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[Van Gogh 2001]

Great! He is also now cast in "The Ten Commandments" mini series! I had hoped he'd do another project since it seems he is not going to have a lot of filming to do in this project. The
more Naveen projects, the better!

[moonshadow707]

Reviving an old thread with a review of said movie, from www.radiosargam.com (http://www.radiosargam.com). Click on the link to see a black and white photo of Naveen and Ash.


MOVIE REVIEW: PROVOKED (2006)
Director: Jagmohan Mundhra
Producer: Sunanda Murali Manohar
Cast: Aishwarya Rai, Naveen Andrews, Robbie Coltrane, Miranda Richardson
Music: A R Rahman

Provoked answers the complicated question of domestic disharmony with a deft and direct approach to the question of a woman’s place in the man’s scheme of things.

The battered wife Kiranjit Ahluwalia (Aishwarya Rai) chooses to kill husband (Naveen).

The story is based on a true story where Kiranjit found freedom by setting her brutal husband on fire.

Cleverly but tenderly formatted as a thriller — in — flashback, Provoked opens with the burning figure of Deepak Ahluwalia (Naveen Andrews) running screaming out of his house. Mundhra moves smoothly backwards into events leading to this gruesome incident.

Full credit to Aishwarya Rai for plunging deep into a part. The vulnerable, fragile little-girl-lost quality in her personality works to great advantage in portraying the spouse-burning victim as a woman scorned beyond endurance.
Among the unforgettable sequences, count the one where the stern lady constable asks Kiranjit to take off her jewellery and clothes.

Blessedly we are shown only fragments of Kiranjit’s trauma. Director Mundhra makes sure they are enough to make us wince without making our stomachs churn.

Female bonding has always been a favourite theme in his films (remember Shabana Azmi and Deepti Naval in Kamla?).

In Provoked the bond that develops between Kiranjit and her cell mate Veronica is remarkably well-tuned to the sisters’-solidarity theme that forms the narrative’s backbone.

Nandita Das is also in fine form as a spunky ‘sister’ activist holding up a torch for the torched husband’s tortured wife.

Every actor in the smallest role gets it right…and bright. Naveen Andrews’s despicable brutality as the husband makes your skin crawl, as it’s meant to.

RS Rating: 7/10

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