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.
