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Before the Rains

Release Date: 2007

Cast: Lal, Rahul Bose, Leopold Benedict, Nandita Das, Linus Roache, John Standing, Thilakan, Jennifer Ehle

Categories: Movies, Romantic drama, Romance Film, Period piece

Before the Rains is a 2007 Indian-British period drama film directed by Santosh Sivan. The film adapted of 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. 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... MORE

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Southwestern Kenya is suffering through two seasons without rain. The Kenyan government states that there are now ten million people who are in urgent need of food aid. The arid, northern part of the country is worst hit, but the effects are now spreading to food producing areas, including those near the coast. These vital agricultural communities produce the country's maize, the staple food of Kenya. Sixty-year-old Kizigwa Mwagudu's farm produced thirty to fifty bags of maize before the rains failed. Now he says he hasn't had a successful crop in months. [Kizigwa Mwagudu, Farmer]: This season I have harvested nothing. As you can see everything is dried up, the crop never even matured, it did not bear anything because of the sun. The situation is made worse by an already existing shortfall of maize in Kenya caused largely by the crisis of early 2007. An outbreak of violence over a disputed election killed thirteen hundred people and drove three hundred thousand from their homes. It also comes at a time when the government is mired in corruption scandals. Critics say Kenya's coalition government is partly to blame for the grain shortfall because of poor planning and high-level corruption involving the import, storage and sale of maize. Market forces and rising food prices have also played a role. Gabrielle Manezes is the public information officer for the UN's World Food Program (WFP). She sees a number of factors, like rising food prices and the drought, as being ...

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