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".
- Regie
- Ashutosh Gowariker
- Cast
- Shahrukh Khan, Rajesh Vivek, Daya Shankar Pandey, Gayatri Joshi, Raja Awasthi, Vishwa S. Badola, Kishori Balal, Rajesh Balwani, Makrand Deshpande, Vishnudatt Gaur, Farrukh Jaffar, Bachan Pachehra, Rich Petrelli, Peter Rawley, Smith Seth, Eduardo Takamura, Lekh Tandon, Bhim Vakani, Rahul Vohra.
- Budget
- $ 5.000.000
- Release
- 17.12.2004