/> Now that the Sonia Gandhi bio-pic is shelved Jagmohan Mundhra is planning to move quickly into yet another autobiographical pic after Provoked. " Shoot On Sight is the story of a 55-year old Muslim cop in Britain.

After thirty years in England the July 7 terrorist bombings happen, and the cop's loyalties, priorities and commitment to the law enforcement agencies in Britain are questioned. It's a role that takes on both personal and political colours. The character is modeled on a real-life cop Tariq Gaffoor.

And since it requires someone with a strong assertive but sensitive personality who better equipped to play it than Mr Amitabh Bachchan? I'll meet him very shortly."

The film will again take the director into the realm of reality, like Kamla, Bawandar and Provoked. "I love going into lives that have struggled. Sometimes the struggle is not so successful. This was the case with the character that Nandita Das played in Bawandar.

Her struggle against oppression failed but it's no less remarkable than Aishwarya Rai's struggle in Provoked. But I guess Ash's character triumphs at the end, hence the exhilarating impact at Cannes. We went into the real-life character Kiranjit Ahluwalia's life through the book she co-wrote with Rahila Gupta. But I found the book wasn't giving my film the right perspective.

So we got Carl Austen in. He got together with Rahila to re-work the book. We picked out episodes and lines from the book that were really shocking."

Jagmohan is all praise for his leading lady. "Ash is undoubtedly very beautiful. Beautiful women are more prone to be abused by men. Ash really worked on her character. Never flinched from doing the brutal scenes. In fact Ash's agent from the US Simone felt we we weren't going far enough with the brutality.

She didn't want audiences to feel Ash's beauty was coming in the way of her portrayal of the trauma...As for Nandita Das she's a dear friend and I had promised her I'd not cast her as a victim this time again after Bawandar. And I kept my word."

Provoked is being praised for its hardhitting theme. "One of my predominant concerns was the 'David Versus Goliath' theme, how this frail village woman from Punjab took on the British system. I was also interested in the whole sub-plot about the Southhall sisters (Nandita Das & Co) getting together to help Kiranjit in her crisis."

The director never felt better. " We worked so hard on Provoked that I fell ill in the middle of the schedule. But I've started looking after myself now. I've lost a lot of weight, want to lose more. I've finally discovered my métier as a movie maker. I feel I'm just starting out. "