Synopsis:
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" on imdb.com)
SPOILER:
Mohan (Shahrukh Khan) becomes moved by the plight of the villagers he sees and helps them tackle problems like caste discrimination and brings electricity to the village. He falls in love with a teacher there named Gita (Gayatri Joshi).
Mohan wants to take his nanny Kaveriamma (Kishori Balal) home to America with him, but Gita, who has been living, along with her brother, with Kaveriamma objects.
Kaveriamma chooses to stay in India and Mohan leaves back for America for the launch of the satellite. Once the satellite is launched he resigns from NASA and goes back to India to the village and people he has grown to love.
