Before the Rains is a 2008 Indian-British period drama film directed by Santosh Sivan. The movie is an adaptation of the 2001 Israeli film Asphalt Zahov.
Set in 1930s Malabar District under the British Raj, against the backdrop of a growing nationalist movement. An idealistic young Indian man, T.K. (Rahul Bose) finds himself torn between his ambitions for the future and his loyalty to the past when people in his village learn of an affair between...
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Before the Rains is a 2008 Indian-British period drama film directed by Santosh Sivan. The movie is an adaptation of the 2001 Israeli film Asphalt Zahov.
Set in 1930s Malabar District under the British Raj, against the backdrop of a growing nationalist movement. An idealistic young Indian man, T.K. (Rahul Bose) finds himself torn between his ambitions for the future and his loyalty to the past when people in his village learn of an affair between his British boss Henry Moores (Linus Roache) and a village woman Sajani (Nandita Das).
The film was released in both UK and US cinemas. The movie got a mixed critical reception with Rotten Tomatoes giving it an average rating of 5.1 and Metacritic giving it a 47/100 rating. Sivan's camera work was widely praised. The lead actors' performances, especially that of Rahul Bose was also applauded. The predominant thread of criticism in most of the reviews were that the film stuck to an old-school format and failed to stir emotion or engage the...
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