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Swades (2004)

Director: Ashutosh Gowariker

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Gowariker’s follow-up to his Oscar nominated ‘Lagaan’ is a generally effective, entertaining and, at times, deeply moving ‘journey of personal discovery’. Mohan (Khan), a NASA scientist, takes time out from his hectic job in ‘Amerika’, to visit his former nanny in rural India. The rest of this somewhat overlong film follows his transformation from ‘Non-Resident Indian’ to ‘Non-Returning Indian’ as he finds himself, his people, his love, his country. At one level, Gowariker’s saccarine portrayal of wholesome village life is manipulative and calculated to tug at the heartstrings of the Indian diaspora. On the other hand, the film’s leisurely pace in establishing ordinary characters and events slowly creeps into your senses, so that like India itself, it gets under your skin.

Author: AS 0000-00-00 00:00:00

Time Out London Issue 1792/1793: December 21 2004-January 5 2005

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Cast & crew

Director: Ashutosh Gowariker

Producer: Ashutosh Gowariker

Cast: Shah Rukh Khan, Gayatri Joshi, Kishori Ballal, Lekh Tandon, Rajesh Vivek, Dayashanker Pandey, Farrukh Jaffar, Vishnudutt Gaur, Raja Awasthi, Visshwa S Badola

Duration: 210 mins


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