Swades

Swades We, the People Hindi , pronouncedsde , own country is a 2004 Indian drama film written, produced and directed by Ashutosh Gowariker. It stars Shah Rukh Khan and Gayatri Joshi in her first film. The film received widespread critical acclaim and a cult following from Indian and other South Asian audiences around the world. It is widely regarded as one of the best Bollywood films of the decade and was later dubbed and released in Tamil under the title Desam.

While there, he meets interesting people there is the village postmaster, eager to know more about email and the Internet, while also having a keen hobby of wrestling the exfreedom fighter who teaches history at the local school and is a lone voice of reason amongst the village elders there is a cook who harbors ambitions of opening a dhaba on a US freeway and sees in Mohan an opportunity to get a visa.While Mohan soon adapts to life in the village and endears himself to its people, he develops a catandmouse romance with his childhood acquaintance Gita Gayatri Joshi, who brought Kaveri Amma from the oldage home to be with her and her brother, Chiku Master Smit Sheth. Gradually he encounters some of the harsher aspects of the village among them are poverty, caste discrimination, child marriage, illiteracy, child labor, a general disregard for education, and apathy to change. He tries in his own way to bring about some change, even succeeding to the point of dissuading the village elders from moving the local school to smaller and faraway premises. In doing this, he earns the respect of Gita, who runs the local school. ........

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