Mohan Bhargava (Shahrukh Khan) is an NRI working at NASA as a Project Manager. He had been a student at the University of Pennsylvania, an Ivy League school. After twelve years in the US, he decides to return to India to find his nanny, Kaveri Amma (Kishori Balal), with whom he has completely lost touch. Along the way, he meets a number of interesting people from the village called Charanpur where Kaveri Amma now lives; there's the village postmaster, eager to know more about e-mails and the internet, while also having a keen hobby of wrestling; the ex-freedom fighter who teaches history at the local school and is a lone voice of reason amongst the village elders; there's also a cook who harbours ambitions of opening a dhaba on a US freeway, and sees in Mohan an opportunity to get himself a visa.<br/><br/>While Mohan soon adapts himself to life in the village and endears himself to its people, he also encounters some of its harsher aspects. Among them are poverty, caste discrimination, child marriage, illiteracy, a general disregard for education and an apathy to change. He tries in his own way to bring about some change, even succeeding to the point of dissuading the village elders from moving the local school to smaller and far-away premises. In doing this, he earns the respect of Gita (Gayatri Joshi), a childhood acquaintance who lives with Kaveri Amma and runs the local school.

Starring

Shahrukh Khan, Gayatri Joshi, Makrand Deshpande, more..

Director

Ashutosh Gowariker

Language

Hindi

Genre

Release Date

Fri Dec, 17 2004

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Shahrukh Khan

... Mohan Bhargava

Gayatri Joshi

... Radha

Makrand Deshpande

... Fakir

Kishori Ballal

... Kaveriamma

Lekh Tandon

... Dadaji

Ashutosh Gowariker

... Producer

Ashutosh Gowariker

... Story / Writers

M G Satyha

... Story / Writers

Bosco Martis

... Choreographers

Caesar Gonsalves

... Choreographers