Swades is the story of Mohan Bhargava, a man working in NASA. Mohan is actually from India, and comes to USA for his career. In the busy of work he forgets totally about India and his people there, and it takes few years before he feels that he is neglecting his people, especially one woman who has brought him up when his parents died. So he decides to go to India and meet her. Her name is Kaveri Amma. After going to India, he inquires her address, and finds that she lives in a small village. So he embarks on that journey. In the village of Charanpur she lives, after going to that village and meeting her, he decides to stay a few days there and take her back with him.

In Charanpur, Mohan discovers his culture, rejoices the festivals, gets along with people. But he also discovers the problems faced by the villagers, the frequent power cuts, the caste divisions, the poor conditions of people, children working for food, and these problems shake him mentally. Instead of willing to help people in the village, he goes away to US, for his work needs him. But in US he cannot stop thinking of India, the thoughts of India haunt him day and night, until he decides to quit his fabulously luxurious life and come to his country , to this small village and help the people there, and live there.

Artists performance, Shahrukh Khan gives one of his best performances ever. Other cast has less to do, for this is a biographical sort of movie, but everyone does good. Direction is original, and inspiring. Other Departments do a good job. Especially the Theme Song by AR Rahman is very good.

Although this movie is a great fare, yet it could not be a big hit at the box office. For this movie has no glamor of Bollywood, nor a dream world of damsels. This movie depicts the conditions of India, the story of Indians.

You would like this movie very much, unless you are addicted Bollywood type Masala and glamor.