About the Film “Swades”, We the people

A few words about the film director.

Ashutosh Gowariker is an Indian actor, writer, producer and director.Ashutosh started his career as an actor in Ketan Mehta’s Holi in 1984.He has also acted in several films.No Indian can forget his film Lagaan(2001) which was nominated for an Academy award for the best foreign Language film.Being an Indian i have become a die hard fan of his direction and screenplays.

courtesy : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashutosh_Gowarikar

This film, Swadesh starts with the intoduction of Mohan Bhargav (played by Shahrukh khan) Project manager in NASA for building an important satellite to monitor our planet’s weather.Then the film slowly moves into the path of what it was supposed to be. Mohan is an orphan who was brought up by a nanny,Kaveri amma(Kishori Ballal) in a remote village. After machine like life in US he is desparate to visit his mother like nanny and his native place .He starts off immediately and reaches India. (i would call her mother from now on)

After reaching Delhi he finds that his mother was residing in an oldage home and was then taken by Geetha (Gayatri joshi) to her village,Charanpur.He preapares himself and finds his way and finally lands in that Village. “yuhi chala..” song, during his journey to the village best describes the traditional values of our country.(great music!!!)

He is suprised to see a Village without proper electricity and basic amenities. He persuades his mother,who had brought him up to come with him .But Geetha who had brought her to the village is reluctant to leave such a wonderful person who had supported her and been a mother to her and her little brother, she also happens to be Mohan’s childhood friend. Puzzled Mohan decides to spend some more days in that village hoping to get his mother with him. in the meantime he finds that Geetha is the teacher for the kids in that village and is moved by her Social concern and decides to do help her in getting kids to school and resolves the threat of the school being taken over by the panchayat.

The lights of the postmaster Nivaran (Rajesh Vivek) and the cook “Mela naam”(Dayashankar Pandey) characters is a pleasure to watch. They bring in some light moments into the film.In due course they take up important role in bringing people together and helping Mohan in his work.

The film gets a move here. Mohan helps in removing the social evils like Untouchabilty and racialism that has long been prevailing in that village. “yeh tara oh tara….” song movie, is full of emotions and moral values. One of my all time favourites .

The director has very carefully chosen his crew. Every single character in the film did their part exceptionally well.All are worth a mention. It would not be fair to just mention few names and leave others.Though i mentioned the only few and left others, they are equally portrayed in the movie.

Once while paying a visit to a nearby village Mohan witnesses the poverty of the families there and his thought to impove their economic condition strengthens. He feels for them and develops a social concern towars his fellow countrymen. He realizes that every individual is part of the constituency and rightly take the necessary steps to improve the condition of his village.He starts with a plan to generate electrcity from a stream of water near his village. After much struggles finally succeeds in it.He gains the respect of the villagers and also the love of geetha. Nice duet song…Also the song “Saanwariyaan…” is very soothing .

The stage play song “Pal Pal hai bhaari…” is also a good instrumental one.
One fine day Shahrukh is informed from his friend in NASA that the project is in final stage and his presence is a must. having no other option he leaves half heartedly to America leaving all his thoughts in that little village where he found true and unconditional love and learnt the social and traditional values.

yet another song which arouses the patriotism in us..”yeh jo desh hai mera…” sung by A.R.Rahman is really touching. The music and the way the instrument,”shehnai” is used in this song is awesome. This number is full of lyrics which will kindle the patriotism in you.

There are no words to praise the director for making such a great movie.I enjoyed every bit of it. A film which made my eyes watery and also to think about my country. I don’t know whether i have justified the movie as to what it deserves.Many of my best pals felt the same.

Also A.R.Rahman’s music is heart filling and making us feel the situation.All the songs were sensational and extremely good .No words to praise the background score. It is one of those movies that no one should miss. I rank this film as my all time favourite and it really deserves the maximum award in this earth.
Hope this blog will make u watch the movie…..

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