Filmfare Award Best Actor: Shah Rukh Khan.Popular Award Best Picture: Ashutosh Gowariker,Ronnie Screwvala,Ashutosh Gowariker Productions.Popular Award Best Playback Singer - Male: Udit Narayan.Popular Award Best Director: Ashutosh Gowariker.Popular Award Best Actress in a Supporting Role: Kishori Ballal.Popular Award Best Actor in a Leading Role: Shah Rukh Khan.Award for Technical Excellence Best Story: M.G.Popular Award Best Lyricist Javed Akhtar.Awards of the International Indian Film Academy (2005).
Of East Indian origin, Mohan Bhargav is one of the millions of Non-residential Indians settled in the United States of America. Soon, Mohan finally realizes that it is his scientific temperament as well as his understanding of societal complexities that can drive the villagers to participate in a movement to better their lives. Mohan befriends the local postmaster Nivaran, stuck to his old-fashioned ways, and the village children, whose future is inextricably linked with that of the country.
Along the way he encounters the quirky but endearing Mela Ram, who sees Mohan as his ticket to the chain of restaurants he will start on the American freeways. Mohan begins to interact with the Panchayat, which has at the helm the dogmatic but the just village chief. Mohan finds his nanny, Kaveriamma, the symbol of motherhood, in a village called Charanpur with an admirable young woman Gita and her younger brother Chikku. The India of SWADES is colorful, heterogeneous and complex and it is to this environment that Mohan Bhargava, a bright young scientist working as project manager in NASA, returns to, on a quest to find his childhood nanny.What begins as a simple mission prompted by nostalgia and affection turns into a journey to the heartland of rural India, both literally and metaphorically. Set in modern day India, SWADES tackles the issue facing the citizens of this nation at grassroots level.