page_title: Swades
section_title: Casting and filming
hierarchical_section_title: Swades / Production / Casting and filming
caption_attribution_description: Panoramic view of Menavali Ghat on the river Krishna.Nana Fadnavis wada to the right.One of the structures in the temple complex has a Portuguese Gigantic Bell captured in the battle. This is the place where the Shahrukh Khan starrer 'Swades' was shot.
context_page_description: Swades is a 2004 Indian Hindi-language drama film written, produced and directed by Ashutosh Gowariker, based on the true life story of a Non-resident Indian man who returns to his homeland. The film stars Shah Rukh Khan, Gayatri Joshi, Kishori Ballal in leading roles, with Daya Shankar Pandey, Rajesh Vivek, Lekh Tandon appearing in supporting role and Makrand Deshpande in a special appearance. The film was considered ahead of its time, and received widespread critical acclaim at its release. It is now considered a cult classic of Hindi cinema. The core plot of the film is loosely inspired by the 2003 Kannada film Chigurida Kanasu starring Shiva Rajkumar which was based on a novel of the same name written by Jnanapeeth Awardee Kannada writer K.Shivaram Karanth and the two episodes of the series Vaapsi which aired on Zee TV's Yule Love Stories and had Gowariker in the lead. The music and background score was composed by A. R. Rahman, with lyrics penned by Javed Akhtar. It was dubbed in Tamil as Desam and released on January 26, 2005 coinciding with Republic Day.
context_section_description: The role of Mohan was first offered to Hrithik Roshan, who refused after reading the script. Gowariker then offered the role to Shahrukh Khan.
  Swades was the first Indian film to be shot inside the NASA research center at the Launch Pad 39A of the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The rainfall monitoring satellite known as the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) in the film is an actual NASA mission and was launched in 2014.
  A major part of the film was shot in Menawali, Maharashtra.
  Bhanu Athaiya, an Oscar winner for Gandhi, was the costume designer for the film.
caption: Panorama of Menawali, the village in Maharashtra where Swades was shot
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