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Swades
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THE FILM Set in modern day India, Swades is a film that tackles the issues that development throws up on a grass root level. 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. 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. Mohan's simple quest becomes the journey that every one of us goes through in search of that metaphysical and elusive place called "home". Director : Ashutosh Gowarikar Ashutosh Gowariker started his career as an actor, making his debut in 1984 in director Ketan Mehta's movie, Holi. He then acted in several television serials, including Kachchi Dhoop (1987), Circus (1989), C.I.D. (1999) and several films, including Naam (1986), Chamatkar (1992), and Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa (1993). The 1993 movie, Pehla Nasha marked his directorial debut (it was inspired by Brian De Palma's Hollywood movie, Body Double). It proved to be a box office failure. His second directorial movie, Baazi (1995) starring Aamir Khan was a "below average" grosser at the box office. Ashutosh also acted in a weekly horror show "Woh", telecasted on Zee TV, which was critically acclaimed. In 2001, Ashutosh directed the period epic movie, Lagaan starring Aamir Kha
