Canadian Indian motion picture director producer Deepa Mehta is position to come back to India to shoot her first Punjabi film, 'Heaven On Earth', which chronicles the life of Aman Deep, a victim of domestic violence in Toronto. But no comparisons with the Aishwarya Rai starrer 'Provoked' please. 'No it's not 'Provoked', please!' Mehta told IANS from Toronto. 'Provoked', released last year, featured Aishwarya Rai as the London-based battered wife Kiranjit Ahluwalia.
'Just as no two love stories are the same, no two instances of domestic violence can be the same. I had filmed Aman Deep's harrowing story in a documentary last year. Her story is the story of so many immigrant wives who suffer domestic indignity in an alien land and culture with no family or friends to support them,' she said. 'In the documentary, I had got the children of battered wives to interview their mothers on web cams. If I had done it I'd have never asked questions like, 'Mom, how did it feel when dad hit you on your stomach when you were expecting me?' '