Swades

(2004)

★ 7.3 IMDb · 401 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 2004

Runtime: 195 мин

Country: India

Director: Ashutosh Gowariker

Cast: Шахрух Хан, Gayatri Joshi, Kishori Balal, Smit Sheth, Lekh Tandon, Раджеш Вивек Упадхья, Daya Shankar Pandey, Farrukh Jaffar, Vishnudutt Gaur, Raja Awasthi

Plot

A successful Indian scientist returns home to his village to take his nanny back to America with him, and in the process rediscovers his roots.

Set in modern day India, Swades is a film that tackles the issues that development throws up on a grass root level. It is to this India, which is colorful, heterogeneous and complex that Mohan Bhargava (Shah Rukh Khan), a bright young scientist working as a project manager in NASA, returns to on a quest to find his childhood nanny. The film uses the contrast between the highly developed world of NASA, which has been at the forefront of advances in space research, and this world back home in India, which is at the crossroads of development. Mohan's simple quest becomes the journey that every one of us goes through in search of that metaphysical and elusive place called "home".