Aiswarya Rai cast in Provoked

Story of a Punjabi woman named Kiranjit Ahluwalia (Hot Aiswarya Rai) who left India to marry a London-based man (Andrews), only to be badly abused. She ended up in prison for murdering her abusive husband after setting him on fire, though was later released after a retrial.

The Hollywood Reporter says Rai will join Nandita Das, Miranda Richardson, Naveen Andrews, Robbie Coltrane and Rebecca Pidgeon who are already signed up.

Richardson will play the fellow inmate who helped Ahluwalia during her time in prison, Coltrane will play the barister during the retrial with Pidgeon cast as a lawyer.