Swades

Shah Rukh Khan, newcomer Gayathri Joshi and Kishori Billal star in this by Ashutosh Gowrikar of Lagaan fame. Music by A.R.Rahman.
Mohan Bhargav is a successful NRI working at NASA, but he misses his childhood nanny, Kaveriamma, whom he considers as his mother. He returns home to find her happily living with his childhood friend, Gita, whom he used to call as 'Gitli' in a rural village.
He tries to convince Kaveriamma to come along with him to America, but she needs time to think. He starts having tug - of - wars between Gita over with whom should Kaveriamma live. Along the way, they fall in love.
When living in India, he starts seeing poverty and hardships of the people and is very touched over the situation. He also has many arguments with the local village heads over their age old traditions. He is much changed.
Before leaving, he decides to do something for the village and assists the villagers to build their own electrical centre, with which they can supply their energy needs. He becomes very dear to the villagers.
After a long leave of absence, he needs to return back to his job, but Kaveriamma doesn't want to leave India and Gita loves her teaching passion too much to leave. He leaves with a heavy heart, but returns to join all he loves.
A very heart wrenching movie. Kudos to Rahman for the music. They really pull your heartstrings. Javed Akhtar's pure Hindi lyrics are really beautiful and nice to hear, as were the dialogues. Shah Rukh Khan is beginning to look old and should start taking up roles that are aged more than 30. An OK job by the newcomer Gayathri. She still has a long way to go with emoting. As for Kishori, she has done a good job as a sweet old woman with lots of love. An awesome movie to watch for the patriotic hearts.