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Before the Rains is a British film of genre Drama directed by Santosh Sivan released in USA on 7 september 2007 with Linus Roache
Before the Rains (2007)
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Add to a movie listBefore the Rains is a 2007 Indian-British period drama film directed by Santosh Sivan. The film is adapted from a story from the 2001 anthology Israeli film Asphalt Zahov.
It was filmed on location in Kerala, India and was released in cinemas in India, the US and the UK.
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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. (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).Actors
Linus Roache
(Henry Moores)
Rahul Bose
(T. K. Neelan)
Nandita Das
(Sajaani)
Jennifer Ehle
(Laura Moores)
Lal
(Rajat)
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