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Mumbai, Aug 13 (ANI): Hollywood art film ‘Before The Rains’ is all set to woo the Indian audiences.

A Merchant-Ivory production, the film marks the English language debut of Indian director Santosh Sivan.

Set in the 1930’s southern India, against the backdrop of a growing nationalist movement, the film features Bollywood’s outstanding actors Nandita Das and Rahul Bose.

Both these actors have proved their mettle in various commercial and art movies.

Nandita Das plays the lead character of Sanjani, a village girl who defies the traditon and culture and falls in love with a white man played by British actor Linus Roache.

“Apart from being female lead, lot of the story revolves around Sanjani. Its a very interesting character because in 1930’s to be able to defy your tradition, your culture, your society and fall in love with a white man and to have the strength to have that conviction of being in love, she is a strong character,” said Das.

Rahul Bose also plays a central character of an idealistic young Indian man named T K in the movie.

He is 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 Moores (Linus Roache) and Sanjani (Nandita Das).

The film has been shot meticulously after ample research.

“This is a Hollywood film, but it is an art film. When we were making the film, all the systems were Americanised. This movie had a lot of detailing,” said Bose.

The movie has been selected for a host of international film festivals like, the Toronto International Film Festival, the Tribeca Film Festival, the Pusan Film Festival and the Dubai Film Festival.

‘Before The Rains’ has already won three awards at the Houston WorldFest for Best Picture, Best Cinematography and Best Music.

The film will hit the screen across India on August 14. (ANI)