Before the Rains

Before the Rains is a 2007 period drama film directed by Santosh Sivan. The film is adapted from a story from the 2001 anthologyIsraeli film Asphalt Zahov. Before the Rains is set in the 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.