Compared to Veer-Zaara, it's light years ahead. It's very much contemporary and it's our story. We see in the film what we see everyday, the places as they are. The 'We, People' film really makes us feel like it's our film. Swades is not colorful Shahrukh doesn't appear in a GAP or POLO SPORT there are no introductory shots there are no romantic scenes and no fields with yellow Tulip flowers It may be a tad slow and lengthy But Swades hits you where your heart hurts the most patriotic and root feelings of an individual with good intentions overcoming societal obstacle. 48 hours hence, I vividly remember most of the scenes and can lucidly state that is truly 'haunting'.
2.ģ0 minutes after I had viewed the film on Sat, I was not sure about how I felt about this film. The boy serving water at 25paise to the train passengers and Mohan Bhargava's reaction I am saddened that Indians both in India and around the world have not liked this movie. In fact it is a character of its own throughout the movie and plays its own part! 2. The feeling he gets when he starts to land in India. I thought there were three moments in the movie that captured it all 1. But I think the rather leisurely pace of the movie is required because it gives enough time for the protagonist, Mohan Bhargava, to come to India (with his mineral water and caravan) and start to fall in love with its beauty as well as understand its incongruities which frustrate us all as well. He has captured something which perhaps no other Indian movie has - that love for ones country can be strong without making an excessively big deal about it. It has none of the ridiculous clichés one is typically used to seeing when one sees a story about an India returning home. Ashutosh Gowariker, has really made this movie straight from the heart.