The Rains Came (1939)

Tyrone Power: Major Rama Safti

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Quotes 

• Major Rama Safti : [translating Hindu song]  "Would my lyre were of jade, its strings of pure-spun gold, that I might sing with merit of your beauty... in your heart my love has found a home, and it can never die..."

• Major Rama Safti : The world's not as bad as you think, Tom.

  Thomas 'Tom' Ransome : No? Only trying to commit suicide as fast as it knows how.

  Major Rama Safti : I don't agree with you. Here in Ranchipur we're trying to make it a little better.

  Thomas 'Tom' Ransome : The whole world?

  Major Rama Safti : OUR world - India in general, Ranchipur in particular.

  Thomas 'Tom' Ransome : I rather like the old place, just as it is.

  Major Rama Safti : You see it as an artist. I see it as an Indian. My people are crying for help. After centuries of disease and poverty and superstition.

• Lady Edwina Esketh : What would you prescribe for a patient about to die of galloping boredom?

  Major Rama Safti : Well, I imagine that the Maharani will see to it that you're properly entertained.

  Lady Edwina Esketh : How?

  Major Rama Safti : Well, the usual routine with guests, I believe, is to show them first the waterworks, then, in order, the narrow gauge railway, the hospital, the zoo, and the asylum for the insane.

  Lady Edwina Esketh : [slight sarcasm]  How exciting.

  Major Rama Safti : Yes, isn't it?

• Maharani : [Major Safti has just been handed an important note]  What is it, Major?

  Major Rama Safti : It has come sooner than I expected: several cases of the plague in the Sweepers Quarters. On top of that, half the water in Ranchipur must be polluted.

  Maharani : Do what you can to keep the plague from spreading. Burn down the whole Quarter if you must.