This is my most favourite Bollywood movie ever. It has a great story, pretty decent dialogue and excellent music. But I'll tell you why I really love this movie—because it is nothing like anything Bollywood has ever produced before.

I do not remember watching any other Shah Rukh Khan movie where he forgot that he was SRK and just became the character he was playing. The acting in this movie does not feel like actors reading from a script, which is what watching any other Bollywood movie feels like. The acting is so good that it recedes into the background. That's what makes me like Hollywood movies and that's what this movie gets right.

I cannot emphasise how important that is to me. No matter how good the story or the production values or the star cast, if the acting is crappy, I cannot tolerate the movie. And even in Bollywood movies where everyone is telling me that the acting in it is awesome, I go to the theatre and find the same tired old over-the-top acting, the sort you see in stage plays.

'Swades' is different. I still cannot believe that Bollywood ever produced a movie like it.