Out of the recently released, which film - Jag Mundhra’s Provoked or Mira Nair’s Namesake - has done better? Well it depends where you look.

Provoked’s distributor Eros International recently sent out a press release touting that it had crossed Namesake’s weekend box office takings in the UK, £140,204 with 35 prints as opposed to Namesake’s slightly lower £125,084 box-office takings, which was available to watch in 59 screens by contrast.

But Provoked, which stars Aishwarya Rai, is amusingly enough doing worse in India. The Namesake has earned nearly three times as much as Provoked, at around Rs 4 crore there. Similarly, in the United States Namesake has earned nearly $9 million so far, more than recouping its investment.
You can read a review of Provoked at AssetsWorld:

The script is appallingly banal and cliched. The ‘characters’ are one dimensional. Everyone overacts and the message is brought down on the viewer like a ton of bricks in a bulldozer at every turn. The beautiful Aishwarya emotes like mad but she is horribly miscast in the role of a victim and a prisoner.

What did you think of either films?