Swades

Jambo folks! I am writing after three months. In the meantime, I had my half yearly exams and a memorable holiday in Kenya! Now let's get back to our mission i.e. looking for must-watch movies.

Mohan Bhargava (played by SRK) is a big shot at NASA who takes a couple of weeks off to go to India and bring Kaveri Amma (Kishori Ballal), his motherly nanny, with him to the USA. When he reaches the old age home where Kaveri Amma had been living, he gets to know that she left that place a few years ago and went to live in some small village named Charanpur. Here he finds his childhood friend Gita (Gayatri Joshi), who brought Kaveri Amma with her and works hard to spread education in the village. Then the story revolves around the social problems Mohan witnesses in the village and the kindling of his love story with Gita ( because you gotta lighten the mood in a commercial film :P )

Many of my readers would wonder why I am blogging about this well-known film starring none other than the Baadshah of Bollywood himself. The reasons are :-

1. Many people I have met haven't seen this film or have forgotten it.
2. Many people appreciated his recent movies including 'Chennai Express' and 'Happy New Year'

 I believe in the ideology of 'to each his own' but at the same time, I want to give words to my views. This man has worked for decades as an actor which is easily visible in the quality of his acting but the issue is with the quality of scripts he has agreed to work on. Lately, he has also exploited the fame of his superhit film 'Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jaayenge' in at least three films including the two listed above and the third being 'Dilwale'.  Well, you can't blame him too. He has tasted all: Name, Fame, Critical Acclaim and Money. It's the last thing which one just can't have enough. He's got nothing to prove and a fanbase which's gonna consume anything with his name on it but we can't let him waste his talent on movies like Chennai Express. Even SRK has the right to complain because when he works in a masterpiece like Swades he gets a low response at the box office but if he acts in a crappy movie like Chennai Express, the box office gets hundreds of crores. A shopkeeper can't sell products which are not popular among the masses irrespective of their quality.

Swades covers social problems like the ill fate of senior citizens, woes of farmers, the evil caste system and low levels of development in the rural areas of the country and at the same time it never loses it's entertainment factor. Its well-accepted songs have been penned by the legendary lyricist Javed Akhtar and have been set to music by AR Rahman. It's always a treat to have them work together. The movie is certainly a delight. Let's hope there is a change in the taste of the masses and such movies get their due at the box office as well.

                                                                    

Directed by	Ashutosh Gowariker
Produced by	Ashutosh Gowariker Ronnie Screwvala
Screenplay by	Ashutosh Gowariker Sameer Sharma
Story by	Ashutosh Gowariker M. G. Sathya
Starring	Shah Rukh Khan Gayatri Joshi Kishori Balal
Music by	A.R.Rahman

This movie is UDAY-CERTIFIED !!