When Gita longingly wishes for Mohan to turn around as he drives away to catch his plane back to the States, one can't help but feel a bit conflicted over their relationship. One of the intriguing things about the story is that you're never sure how the romance between the attractive couple will play out. I must say, as a screen couple, Shah Rukh Khan and Gayatri Joshi are every bit as charismatic as Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof". There was repeated emphasis in the picture about self respect, independence and self reliance, probably none more effective than when the lovely school teacher Gita (Gayatri Joshi) declined a marriage proposal because of the devotion to her vocation.
For all of it's own troubles, Mohan painted a picture of liberty and opportunity for one to follow his dreams in America, and tried to instill some of that kind of pride in being a citizen of a small community. I don't know if this was a bold statement for director Ashutosh Gowariker to make, especially in the way he contrasted the way of life in India with Mohan's description of life in the U.S. Mohan has an awakening I guess one would say, as he observes the poverty in his travels through the countryside, and an unwillingness of most of it's citizens to challenge a caste system that keeps everyone within their own social class. The surprising thing about "Swades" for me was that the story began in the United States, and then transitioned to the small Indian village of Charanpur by way of the principal character, Mohan Bhargava (Shah Rukh Khan), having a desire to reconnect with the nanny who raised him. I'm beginning to learn that it's not unusual for Indian movies to approach and even surpass three hours in length. Reviewed by classicsoncall 8 / 10 "Not a word son, these are all matters of destiny." Mohan's simple quest becomes the journey that every one of us goes through in search of that metaphysical and elusive place called "home".-Anonymous 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. It is to this India, which is colorful, heterogeneous and complex that Mohan Bhargava (Shah Rukh Khan), a bright young scientist working as a project manager in NASA, returns to on a quest to find his childhood nanny. Set in modern day India, Swades is a film that tackles the issues that development throws up on a grass root level.
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