Additional information for Before the Rains, which has a domestic theatrical release set for July 25, 2008. The film is being distributed by Metrodome Distribution and has not yet been rated. Before the Rains has a total running time of 98 minutes.
PG-13
USA
PG
Canada
12
UK
M
Australia
K-13
Finland
PG
Singapore
98min
Ennen sateita
Finland
Road to the Sky
UK
To timima tou pathous
Greece
September 07, 2007
Canada
October 06, 2007
South Korea
January 11, 2008
USA
February 09, 2008
Germany
April 08, 2008
USA
April 11, 2008
USA
April 29, 2008
USA
May 09, 2008
USA
June 14, 2008
USA
July 11, 2008
Canada
July 11, 2008
Canada
July 25, 2008
UK
September 26, 2008
Brazil
March 26, 2009
New Zealand
April 01, 2009
Finland
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A English spice baron settles in South India during the waning years of the Raj.
Set in 1930s southern India against the backdrop of a growing nationalist movement, Before the Rains is the English language début of Indian director Santosh Sivan. An idealistic young Indian man (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 (Linus Roache) and a village woman (Nandita Das).
Before the Rains is adapted from Red Roofs, the longest of three unrelated stories in the Israeli director Dany Veretes 2002 film, Yellow Asphalt, which explored the collision of modern customs and tribal traditions in contemporary Israel. In that movie a wealthy Jewish farmer who has an affair with his Bedouin housekeeper forces his assistant, a Bedouin tribesman, to initiate drastic damage control once the relationship is detected. With a screenplay by Cathy Rabin, Before the Rains has been to moved to colonial India in 1937. The transition from one culture to another is seamless.
Moores, played by Mr. Roache with a cunning charm that masks an authoritarian severity, is carrying on a passionate affair with his housekeeper Sajani (Nandita Das), a beautiful, naïve woman who commutes from the village to work at his nearby ranch. One afternoon they are accidentally spied making love at a waterfall by two young boys from the village, who report seeing Sajani with an unidentified man.
When her husband, Rajat (Lal Paul), interrogates her, Sajanis evasive replies drive him into a fury and he savagely beats her, which under tribal law is within his rights. Since Mooress wife, Laura (Jennifer Ehle), has recently arrived from England with their son Peter (Leopold Benedict), Sajani has already become someone to be kept hidden, although Moores still swears he loves her.
But when Sajani shows up wounded at his door in the middle of the night, he insists she leave as soon as possible. The next day he hands her money and entrusts her to T. K., who is ordered to make sure that she leaves. Before departing, she asks Moores one last time if he loves her, and after a pause, he coldly answers no.
Before the Rains doesnt dawdle in sentimentality. As much as you sympathize with Sajanis hopeless plight she is a pariah with nowhere to go the film is a dispassionate study of how power, when threatened, ruthlessly exercises its prerogatives. For as long as he can get away with it, Moores lies to his wife about the reasons for the escalating turmoil. Nowadays its called stonewalling.
The movies most compelling figure is the unfailingly loyal T. K., who is instructed to violate native customs in a desperate cover-up. A stoic, taciturn man who loves his boss too much, he is a lost soul who has foolishly imagined he could keep one foot in the tribal world and the other in the modern.
But for all his ability at navigating between the two, T. K. is as naïve in his way as Sajani. The movie is too sophisticated to make Moores an evil caricature. He is simply the embodiment of the kind of power that when endangered reveals its true nature. The serenity and calmness of the locations are charming and the background score is impressive.(updated March27 2009 by swati-verma@hotmail.com)
Santosh Sivan
Director(s)
Cathy Rabin
Dan Verete
Writer(s)
Mark Burton
producer
Steven Cohen
associate producer
Howard Frumes
executive producer
Paul Hardart
producer
Tom Hardart
producer
Doug Mankoff
producer
Pauline Piechota
co-producer
Ashok Rao
executive producer
Mubina Rattonsey
co-producer
Andrew Spaulding
producer
Jessica Stamen
co-producer
Milind Vereker
line producer
Jane Villiers
executive producer
Amotz Zakai
co-producer
Producer(s)
Mark Kilian
Composer(s)
Henry Moores
Linus Roache
T. K. Neelan
Rahul Bose
Sajani
Nandita Das
Laura Moores
Jennifer Ehle
Peter Moores
Leopold Benedict
T.K.'s Headmaster
Dr. Ambikathmajan
Manas
Indrajith
T.K.'s mom
Lakshmi Krishnamurthy
Rajat (as Lal Paul)
Lal
Charles Humphries
John Standing
T.K.'s Father
Thilakan
Inspector Sampath
Ejji K. Umamahesh
Director(s)
Dan Verete
Writer(s)
producer
Steven Cohen
associate producer
Howard Frumes
executive producer
Paul Hardart
producer
Tom Hardart
producer
Doug Mankoff
producer
Pauline Piechota
co-producer
Ashok Rao
executive producer
Mubina Rattonsey
co-producer
Andrew Spaulding
producer
Jessica Stamen
co-producer
Milind Vereker
line producer
Jane Villiers
executive producer
Amotz Zakai
co-producer
Producer(s)
Composer(s)
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