Before the Rains (2007)

Directed by

Santosh Sivan

Genre

drama film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 38m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

4.8 of 10 from 14 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In 1930s British India, an Englishman has an affair with a married village woman. A young Indian assistant caught between his boss and his community faces a conflict of loyalty and tradition.

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What happens

Before the Rains is a 2007 period drama film directed by Santosh Sivan. The film is adapted from a story from the 2001 anthology Israeli film Asphalt Zahov. Before the Rains is set in 1930s Malabar District of the Madras Presidency of British India, against the backdrop of a growing nationalist movement. An idealistic young Indian man, T.K. Neelan (Rahul Bose) finds himself torn between his ambitions for the future and his loyalty to tradition when people in his village learn of an affair between his British boss and close friend Henry Moores (Linus Roache) and a married village woman Sajani (Nandita Das). It was filmed on location in Kerala, India and was released in cinemas in India, the US and the UK. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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