Swades (2004) on Netflix
Mohan Bhargava manages a project for NASA in Washington, D.C. He takes leave to find Kaveri Amma, the nanny who raised him, and take her back to the United States.
- Netflix4.3/5
- IMDb8.2/10107,337 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes89%
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Plot summary
Mohan Bhargava is a Non-Resident Indian who works as a project manager on NASA's Global Precipitation Measurement program in Washington, D.C. He went to the United States for his higher education and stayed there after his parents died in a car accident in India. Kaveri Amma, the nanny who raised him, moved to an old age home in Delhi and lost touch with him. After his project's first phase launched, Mohan takes a few weeks of leave to find her, learns she left the home a year earlier for a village named Charanpur, and drives there.
Cast
- Kishori Ballalas Kaveri amma
- Smit Shethas Chiku
- Vishnudutt Gauras Vishnu Dutt (Panchayat member)
- Raja Awasthias Panch Gungadin
- Vishwa S. Badolaas Panch Munishwar
- Bhim Vakanias Panch Narayan
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Swades (2004)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Ashutosh Gowariker first offered Mohan's role to Aamir Khan, who turned it down as a weak story, then to Hrithik Roshan, who refused after reading the script. He considered R. Madhavan before Shah Rukh Khan accepted and cried during the narration.
- Swades was the first Indian film shot inside NASA headquarters and inside the NASA research center at Launch Pad 39A of the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
- The film is inspired by Aravinda Pillalamarri and Ravi Kuchimanchi, a non-resident Indian couple who returned to India and built a pedal power generator to light remote off-the-grid village schools. Gowariker spent considerable time with the two Association for India's Development volunteers.
- Mohan Bhargav, played by Khan, was reprised in Brahmāstra: Part One – Shiva, with director Ayan Mukerji confirming it is the same character from Swades.
- On 27 March 2021, members of the United States Navy Band sang "Yeh Jo Des Hai Tera" for Taranjit Singh Sandhu, India's ambassador to the United States, at a special dinner. The video on Twitter drew praise from Shahrukh Khan and A. R. Rahman.
