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".Swades is inspired by the story of Aravinda Pillalamarri and Ravi Kuchimanchi, the NRI couple who quit their jobs in the US and return to India to work on micro-hydel project in Bilgaon. Read more: http://nripulse.com/profile_RaviAravinda.htm
After watching the movie, the NRIs must have slept late, may have called India homes at 8 cents a minute to tell everyone they saw Swades and liked it very much.
Typically, NRIs are Non-Returning Indians.
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