Just now, finished watching the movie Swades, including all the seven deleted scenes available in youtube :). I am not sure how many times i've already seen the movie.
Coming to the movie:
Shahrukh was perfect to the character, an NRI who came to india for his nanny. Not a bit of over acting any where[which he normally does :)]. Perfect in cute little romantic scenes as well as serious scenes crying or preaching the villagers. I would say this is his best performance till date(Sep 1st, 2010).
Gayatri Joshi is also very natural and apt for the role. She might not've acted greatly in some scenes, but that makes it more natural.[No Human being gives perfect expressions in real life :)] I am really surprised why she couldn't act in many movies[atleast big movies] after that movie.
The director was able to properly everything in the movie:
- Romance/Love between the lead pair was shown in a very cute and decent manner.
- Emotions were perfectly brought in all the scenes showing various problems/people's sufferings,,etc. Never over the board. This is very difficult to achieve.
- Some simple solutions were shown in a nice way. Lets not debate on the possibilities of those solutions.
- The whole village environment was captured very well.
I feel/think, India needs many such Mohan Bhargavas for it to resolve all it's problems and become a properly developed country.
I will feel really happy/proud when ever I read about such people who fight/bring change in the society and show solutions to the common/poor people's problems. Recently I've read about Bhagavatula Parameswara Rao, an indian who completed his PhD in US and returned to India in 1967 and since then been helping many people using his Bhagavatula Charitable trust.
More information can be found at http://www.bctindia.net/
Jai Hind
