Anurag Jain's Blog
Tuesday, February 22, 2005

Swades: A true story?

Recently watched Swades (Also, at imdb). A brilliant movie, I must say. Especially the soundtrack is real neat, most fantabulous track being the theme music played during the titles at the beginning (The accordion/mouth-organ music, that is. It's not available in the album, so I ripped it off DVD).

The interesting part is this though: Is it based on this real-life hydro-power project?

(Update Mar 02, 2005: Apparently, the movie is based on two Kerala guys Anil Kumar and Madhusoodanan C. G., who were the winners of MIT technovators prize in 2003 for the hydro-electricity project! The full story by Dilip D'Souza (Aug 31, 2000).
Update Mar 03, 2005: A good friend of mine told me that there was a serial called Love Stories on Zee TV a few years back where one of the stories featured Ashutosh Gowariker as the lead and the story was pretty much the same as Swades! Same trivia also mentioned at Swades2 blog.)


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