Executive Summary
Swades is a movie about an NRI (Mohan) who comes back to India to meet his old nanny (Kaveri Amma) and take her back with him. The movie is in a village setting and shows how Mohan got involved in the affairs of the village and how later it brings a change of heart and makes him come back and settle down in India. The movie is a slice of life but holds a lot of message for training and development.
The movie argues for: do-it-yourself ‘Development’, take ‘Responsibility’ and about individual empowerment. It has multiple messages not just for NRIs to return home and work towards making difference, but also of how one determined person can transform a community. India needs a revolution to come right from the bottom level. We need a million Mohan’s, not just one.
This movie advocates the “victory of individual spirit". It is about “lighting a bulb”. It is about an individual’s personal beliefs pitted against a society’s hypocritical potpourri of “paramparas and sanskritis". It is about the transformation of an individual who is indifferent and cynical to the ways of society, to an individual who doesn’t accept the status-quo and stands for the people, against people.It is about life. It is about a billion others who wait for Mohans’ to change India.
Life also is a training field and lessons learnt from every day experiences and events develops us and equips us to face challenges in our professional and personal life.
Introduction
Story line and Characters:
The story of Swades begins with the introduction of Mohan Bhargava (Shahrukh Khan), an Indian living and working in the USA. Mohan, a scientist for NASA is assigned to the Global Precipitation Measurement Satellite project. From the exterior all seems well for M ...