For Bollywood beauty Aishwarya Rai, her next role on the reel is going to be based on the real-life story of a battered British Asian wife that had caused a sensation in the United Kingdom.

Rai is going to be busy next five weeks shooting for Jagmohan Mundra's next movie, Provoked, in England in the role of Kiranjit Ahluwalia, a girl who migrated from a non-descript village in India's Punjab state to London only to be abused by her British husband of Indian origin.

The story of Kiranjit, who had murdered her husband after being tortured by him for several years, had sparked a furore through Britain in 1992 and is believed to have forced a change in British law to recognise the trauma of a battered wife.

According to Mundra, "The power of the story derives from the extraordinary struggle of a woman to break free from domestic violence."

The film also has Indian actress Nandita Das who plays the role of an activist, a role that comes naturally to her as she is so in real life as well. Interestingly, Das had played the role of a victim of domestic violence in Mundra's earlier feature film Bawandar.

The script of the film is written by Kiranjit's friend Rahila Gupta who had campaigned against domestic violence of Asian wives under the banner of Southhall Black Sisters.

According to Rahila, the British judge had understood Kiranjit's trauma and in a landmark verdict changed the definition of being provoked to murder.

Both Mundra and Rahila believe the portrayal of Kiranjit's role is going to be challenging for Aishwarya and it remains to be seen how she responds to that. It's a role the actress has not played so far, feel both.