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Title: Swades (2004)
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Cast
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| Shah Rukh Khan | ... | Mohan Bhargava | |
| Gayatri Joshi | ... | Gita | |
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Kishori Ballal | ... | Kaveri amma |
| Smit Sheth | ... | Chiku (as Master Smith Seth) | |
| Lekh Tandon | ... | Dadaji - Freedom Fighter | |
| Rajesh Vivek | ... | Nivaran Dayal Shrivastav | |
| Daya Shankar Pandey | ... | Mela Ram (as Dayashanker Pandey) | |
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Farrukh Jaffar | ... | Fatima Bi |
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Vishnudutt Gaur | ||
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Raja Awasthi | ||
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Vishwa Mohan Badola | ... | (as Visshwa S. Badola) |
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Bhim Vakani | ||
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Rahul Vohra | ... | Vinod (as Rahul Vora) |
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Rajesh Balwani | ||
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Bachan Pachehra | ... | (as Bachan Pachera) |
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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". Written by Anonymous
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Country:
IndiaRelease Date:
17 December 2004 (India) See more »Also Known As:
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Goddard Space Flight Center - Greenbelt Road, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA See more »Edit
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Opening Weekend USA:
$424,804, 19 December 2004, Limited ReleaseGross USA:
$1,223,240Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
$7,570,413Company Credits
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Ashutosh Gowariker was the voice of Shahrukh Khan in the song "Pal Pal Hai Bhari". See more »Goofs
In the scene when Mohan Bhargava installs turbine for electricity generation, the turbine's blades are seen as "forward curved". However with forward curved blades, losses are significantly high and normally they are not used in turbines. Sometimes where they are used, an additional pressure turbine is used, but that was not there in the movie. See more »Quotes
Mohan Bhargav: I'm only speaking of things I've experienced while living here. And that is that we keep fighting among ourselves when we must fight against illiteracy, over-population & corruption. Everyday, in our streets & homes, each one of us keeps saying their is no future of this country. This country is on the path of destruction. If we keep saying this, we will one day actually land up there. You'll need to do something about this. You too! Not just the members of the Panchayat but everyone in the ...[...]
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This is definitely worth watching. The direction is restrained, SRK has acted really well after a long time, and there is a naive yet charming idealism underpinning the movie. It could have been a tad shorter, crisper editing would have helped. BO-wise it is a risky movie - unapologetic in its depiction of poverty and almost childlike in its appeal to NRIs and India's middle class to acknowledge poverty and try to do something about it. Gowarikar's heart is in the right place - the shots with the family unable to pay land rents, and the waterboy were graceful and poignant. My hunch is that regardless of BO fate, this is an important movie and will be referred to for year to come.