| Before the Rains | |
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| Directed by | Santosh Sivan |
| Screenplay by | Cathy Rabin |
| Produced by | Mark Burton Paul Hardart Tom Hardart Doug Mankoff Andrew Spaulding |
| Starring | Linus Roache Rahul Bose Nandita Das Jennifer Ehle Leopold Benedict Lal Paul |
| Cinematography | Santosh Sivan |
| Edited by | Steven Cohen |
| Music by | Mark Kilian |
Production companies | Merchant Ivory Productions Adirondack Pictures Excalibur Pictures Santosh Sivan Productions Echo Lake Entertainment |
| Distributed by | Roadside Attractions (USA) Metrodome Distribution (UK) |
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Running time | 96 minutes[1] |
| Countries | India United Kingdom |
| Languages | English Malayalam[1] |
| Box office | US $1,316,722[2] |
Before 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.[3] 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.
- ^ a b Before The Rains - BBFC.
- ^ "Before the Rains".
- ^ Holden, Stephen (9 May 2008). "After Them the Monsoon: Two Worlds Collide in India". The New York Times.