Swades: We, the People

Year: 2004

Country: India

Tagline: We, the people

Plot: Mohan Bhargav (Shahrukh Khan) is a GPM at NASA. Mohan's parents were killed in a car crash whilst he was studying at the University of Pensylvannia, leaving him alone in the world. Mohan had a nanny named Kaveriamma (Kishori Balal) who lives in India - Mohan decides to return to India and bring Kaveriamma so that he can take care of her.Mohan learns that Kaveriamma is living in a village named Chananpur. He travels there, where he also meets his childhood friend Geeta (Gayatri Joshi) who now teaches at the village school. All too soon, Mohan realises how harsh village life is after experiencing problems such as gender discrimination, child marriage, lack of education, caste disctrimination and poverty amongst other things.Mohan now decides that he must help the villagers.Living in America, a NASA engineer returns to an Indian village to take his nanny to America with him and in the process rediscovers his roots.

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