Before The Rains Review | Before The Rains Movie Review

Before The Rains Review | Before The Rains Movie Review

Film: Before the Rains (Drama)
Cast: Rahul Bose, Nandita Das, Linus Roache, Jennifer Ehle
Direction : Santosh Sivan
Duration: 2 hours

The lushing greenery of Kerala never looked more inviting….or erotic. As a tea planter in Colonial India falls into the forbidden arms of a dusky mysterious local girl married to an abusive violent man the screen comes to fragile life with delicate sounds and scents.

Santosh Sivan’s camera takes us through the luscious labyrinth of love lust and loss in no time at all.
The plot in Before The Rains almost begs to be defined as a cliché. And yet, there lies the beauty of this fragile love triangle about the beauty and the Brits and the native beauty’s silent lover whose eyes say it all, and who must do a hasty cover-up job for his lord and master after he leaves his trail of lust(or was it love?) and blood behind.

The movie is set in South India during the 1930’s, against the conditions of a growing nationalist movement. The film has Mr Moores (played by Roache), as an Englishman wants to develop a road across a hill before the rains, which he believes will make him rich as people will use it to transport spices. TK, done by Bose, is his friend who helps him with his venture.

Nandita Das dons the role of Sanjani, a village girl who resists the tradition and culture. She goes crazy for Moore, enacted by British actor Linus Roache. Rahul Bose’s character is that of a man 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 and Sanjani.

Movie takes a twist with the discovery of Sanjini’s sexual venture withMoore being discovered by two village boys. Snajini’s husband who gets to know this beats her up severely, but she reaches Mr Moores`s house where she seeks love and refuge, but she is “ditched” by him as he is scared about the wrath of the villagers.

Santosh Sivan`s craft as a breathtaking cinematographer is at its full display. All the lead actors prove their spirit with striking performances.

This one’s surely worth a watch.

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