Ranked #54 of 100
Swades
स्वदेस · 2004
A NASA engineer returns for his old nanny and stays to build a micro-hydel plant for a village that doesn't trust him.
- Director
- Ashutosh Gowariker
- Year
- 2004
- Genre
- Drama
- Cast
- Shah Rukh Khan, Gayatri Joshi, Kishori Ballal
Why it's at number 54
Shah Rukh's least starry and best performance. The water-in-the-train scene is the whole film.
A NASA engineer returns for his old nanny and stays to build a micro-hydel plant for a village that doesn't trust him.
Swades sits in the 2000s alongside Lagaan and Dil Chahta Hai — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Ashutosh Gowariker — also responsible for Lagaan, Jodhaa Akbar.
- Released in 2004, in the 2000s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Drama.
- Read more on Wikipedia, check the full crew on IMDb, or find a legal stream via JustWatch.
Film record Wikipedia — Swades (2004) · data last revised 9 August 2026 · title, year, director and cast are read from that article; this site keeps no independent print record and does not claim one
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