Rahul's character, T K, in Santosh Sivan's Before the Rains, received lot of good wishes and pool of praises from the New York Times' critic Stephen Holden.
The prestige offered with a critical appreciation by the New York Times is not quite unknown to national or international filmy people. Besides that Rahul got hyped by Venis Magazine for his amazingly portraying the character of T K.
And all those are topped with praising words by the director Santosh Sivan himself though it's first film for him to work with Rahul.
Talking about the equation between him and Santosh, Rahul says, "He (Santosh) is from South and I am from Mumabi. We never had chance to work together but the way he decided about my character in the film, proves a great hype in my career and the whole credit of the fact goes to him only."
Rahul, in Before the Rains, plays such a character who is from a South Indian village and despite having rooted to the culture of village, he is hued with modernity. According to Rahul it's such a complex character that he really loved to portray.
The fun behind the fiction is that the character, that gives Rahul so much fame and a glowing name, was rejected by Rahul himself because he was asked for an audition. But it was blindly believed by Rahul's manager that T K can be portrayed only by Rahul.