However, his travel puts him in midst of socio-economic challenges (illiteracy, child marriage, electricity, drought, religion, poverty, caste hierarchy and gender discrimination) affecting the village he is visiting. The purpose of his visit initially, is intended to bring her back to America with him.
Swades: We, The People (Our Nation), is an Indian feature film written, directed and produced by Ashutosh Gowariker, follows the journey of the central character Mohan Bhargava, an Indian origin scientist working at NASA who travels to India driven by nostalgia to reconnect with his childhood nanny, Kaveriamma. The movie’s timeline is based on the version available from Netflix, UK. An exposition of compositional, contextual and functional analysis of the film’s main musical theme its multiple instances throughout the film is presented to investigate and understand the composer’s method in scoring the film. The analysis includes an overview of the film’s narrative, the two distinctive musical categories pertinent to Indian feature films, narrative cues and its respective musical themes. The essay aims to present a detailed analysis of the music score for the subject film.
