Swades - 2004 (Hindi Blu-ray) $34.99

A successful Indian scientist returns to an Indian village to take his nanny to America with him and in the process rediscovers his roots. Swades is regarded ahead of its time and is now considered a cult classic of Hindi cinema and one of the best films in Shah Rukh Khan's filmography

Movie : Swades : We, the People (Homeland)
Year : 2004
Banner : Ashutosh Gowariker Productions
Cast : Shah Rukh Khan, Gayatri Joshi, Kishori Ballal, Daya Shankar Pandey, Rajesh Vivek, Lekh Tandon, Master Smit Sheth
Lyrics : Javed Akhtar
Music : A. R. Rahman
Story : M. G. Sathya, Ashutosh Gowariker
Screenplay : Ashutosh Gowariker, Ayan Mukerji, Sameer Sharma, Lalit Marathe, Amin Hajee, Charlotte Whitby – Coles, Yashdeep Nigudkar
Dialogues : K. P. Saxena
Direction : Ashutosh Gowariker
Producer : Ashutosh Gowariker, Sunitha Gowariker
Genre : Drama
Runtime : 195 min
Release Date : 17 December 2004

Swades Bluray Features

• Format : Blu-ray
• Language : Hindi, French, Arabic
• Video Encoding : All Regions
• Audio Encoding: Dolby TrueHD 5.1 & DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
• Subtitles : English
• Interactive Menus of Songs & Scenes for Easy Access
• Anamorphic Widescreen Enhanced (16:9)

Additional Features

• 6 Deleted Scenes
• Bloopers
• Original Auditions

Plot

Set in modern day India SWADES (Our Country) is a film that tackles the issues facing the citizens of this nation on a grass roots level. A country that is grappling with problems that development throws up, the India of SWADES is colourful, heterogeneous and complex, with peoples of divers cultures and attitudes. It is to this environment that Mohan Bhargava (Shah Rukh Khan), a bright young scientist working as a project manager in NASA, return to on a quest to find his childhood nanny.

In his attempts to persuade Kaveriamma (Kishori Ballal), the symbol to him of motherhood and family, to return to America with him, he gets drawn intro the life of a village called Charanpur and finds himself searching for answers to the questions of progress and development that the village is facing. His curiosity is piqued by Gita (Gayatri Joshi- film debut), an admirable young woman teaching in the village primary school, who chooses to live here despite problems like casteism, prejudice and a lack of basic amenities.

The film uses the contrast between the highly developed world of NASA, which has been at the forefront of advances in space research, and this world back home in India, which is at the crossroads of development. What was a simple mission, prompted by nostalgia and affection, turns into a journey into the heartland of rural India, both literally and metaphorically. His quest becomes the journey that every one of us goes through in search of that metaphysical and elusive place called 'home'.