Director :   Jagmohan Mundra
Producer :   Sunanda Murali Manohar

Starring :   Aishwarya Rai, Deborah Moore, Miranda Richardson, Nandita Das, Naveen Andrew, Nichola Irons, Raji Jame, Rebecca Pidgeon, Robbie Coltrane, Shaheen Khan, Steve McFadden

Censor Rating :   NA

Year of Production :   2007

Genre :   Feature Film

Category :    Drama

 

Synopsis :   Unable to bear the brutality and repeated rapes by her alcoholic husband, Kiran 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 cellmate. Moved by her story the cellmate asks her stepbrother, a highly respected queen’s counsel to file her appeal. Her case comes to the notice of a group of south Asian social workers. They bring her plight to the attention of the media by organizing rallies to gather public support for her freedom. She is ultimately freed by the judicial system.