"The spirit of auteur Satyajit Ray suffuses this debut by writer-director Satish Manwar. Like Ray's debut "Pather Panchali"...Manwar's "The Damned Rain" portrays a family's plight with a naturalist style of storytelling, a humanist agenda and a lyrical eye on nature."
- CHICAGO SUN TIMES
"What lifts the film above standard ethnography is its tone. The life we see in (the film)...may be unforgivingly harsh, but the story is told delicately, with some unexpected, light-comic touches." - CHICAGO TRIBUNE
"Powerful tale...with a keen understanding of the human dependence on nature, full of hope one moment only to be crushed the next." - VARIETY |
