Swades, as the name of the movie suggests is based on patriotic lines, story of an Indian who seeks high for his career, leaves his home country but soon after, he starts feeling detached for his maid-mother who took care of him after his parents died. This movie does not waste time in things like how he started his career in foreign country and how all those things led him to such feelings. It starts with Shah Rukh Khan suddenly facing immense emotions for his maid-mother living in India.

This movie brings us a picture of underdevelopment of some regions in India and how they are themselves responsible for this. The false superstitions and believes hampering the progress of these regions are depicted so beautifully in this movie. However this movie has no so called very dramatic climax and suspense but still the message delivered is so noble and inspiring.

However this movie was not great at box-office collection but it is worth giving a watch.