Linus Roache

Before the Rains (PG-13) ** - Exotic romance doomed by its dreary storyline It's all over when two little boys get an eyeful of Linus Roache and Nandita Das. Kerala, South India, in 1937, was the wild frontier for English colonialists, a...

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...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...

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...sentiment. British actor Linus Roache ("The Namesake," "Law & Order") plays Moores, an ambitious entrepreneur who plans to build a road through the mountain that will eventually be used to carry tea and spices. But while his wife...

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In southern Kerala, Henry Moores (Linus Roache) has ambitions to expand his business and become a spice baron by building a road through the mountains to transport his crop, a project which must be completed before the monsoon season. As...

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...and if that gets me kicked out of the film-snob cult as a middlebrow, so be it.) In what ought to be the picture's star turn, Linus Roache plays an arrogant British spice baron named Henry Moores, whose foolhardy attempt to build a road...

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...hold on the region. In the midst of this turmoil, a British man (Linus Roache) embarks on an affair with an Indian woman (Nandita Das), while one of the men in the village (Rahul Bose) tries to quell his inner struggle. Santosh Sivan (ASOKA)...

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"Before the Rains": Brits behaving badly in 1930s India Linus Roache, left, and Rahul Bose in "Before The Rains." "Before the Rains," with Linus Roache, Rahul Bose, Nandita Das. Directed by Sandosh Sivan, from a screenplay by Cathy Rabin.

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...in the late 1930s. An ambitious young man, T K Neelan (Rahul Bose) finds himself torn between loyalties old and new after his British boss (Linus Roache) is revealed to be having an affair with a local girl (Nandita Das). The fateful gift of...

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...if they're ever found out. One day, Roache and Das steal off for a romantic interlude in the forest, but when a pair of local boys witnesses them, the potential fallout could be damaging for both of them. Roache's faithful...

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