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
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The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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)
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