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Swades

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Swades is a 2004 Indian drama film written, produced and directed by Ashutosh Gowariker. [1]

82 relations: A. R. Rahman, Adivasi, Alka Yagnik, Ashutosh Gowariker, Association for India's Development, Ayan Mukerji, BBC, Bollywood Movie Awards, Box Office India, Chigurida Kanasu, Cult following, Daya Shankar Pandey, Delhi, Drama (film and television), Filmfare Award for Best Actor, Filmfare Award for Best Background Score, Filmfare Awards, Flute, Gandhism, Gayatri Joshi, Global Indian Film Awards, Global Precipitation Measurement, Hariharan (singer), Hindi, Hrithik Roshan, Javed Akhtar, Jitesh Pillai, K. J. Yesudas, K. S. Chithra, K. Shivaram Karanth, Kailash Kher, Kennedy Space Center, Kishori Ballal, Lekh Tandon, Madhukar Dhumal, Madhushree, Maharashtra, Mahatma Gandhi, Mahesh Aney, Makarand Deshpande, Mayank Shekhar, Menawali, Mid Day, Mohammed Aslam, Narmada Bachao Andolan, Narmada River, NASA, National Film Award for Best Cinematography, National Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer, National Film Awards, ..., Naveen Kumar (musician), Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: The Forgotten Hero, New (film), Non-resident Indian and person of Indian origin, Panchathan Record Inn and AM Studios, Rajesh Vivek, Ronnie Screwvala, S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, Sadhana Sargam, Sanjay Puran Singh Chauhan, Screen Award for Best Female Debut, Screen Awards, Shah Rukh Khan, Shehnai, Soundtrack, Srinivas, Stardust Award for Best Director of the Year, Stardust Awards, Swadeshi movement, T-Series, T. L. Maharajan, The Telegraph (Calcutta), The Times of India, Tushar Gandhi, Udit Narayan, Uttar Pradesh, UTV Motion Pictures, Vaali (poet), Vijay Prakash, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Zee Cine Award for Best Female Debut, Zee Cine Awards. Expand index (32 more) »

A. R. Rahman

Allahrakka Rahman (born A. S. Dileep Kumar, best known as A. R. Rahman, is an Indian composer, singer-songwriter, and music producer. A. R. Rahman's works are noted for integrating Indian classical music with electronic music, world music and traditional orchestral arrangements. Among his awards are six National Film Awards, two Academy Awards, two Grammy Awards, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe, fifteen Filmfare Awards and seventeen Filmfare Awards South. He has been awarded the Padma Bhushan, the third highest civilian award, in 2010 by the Government of India. In 2009, Rahman was included on the ''Time'' 100 list of the world's most influential people. The UK-based world-music magazine Songlines named him one of "Tomorrow's World Music Icons" in August 2011. South Indian fans of Rahman refer him with the nickname of "The Mozart of Madras", and "Isai Puyal" (the Musical Storm). With an in-house studio (Panchathan Record Inn in Chennai), Rahman's film-scoring career began during the early 1990s with the Tamil film Roja. Working in India's film industries, international cinema, and theatre, Rahman is one of the best-selling recording artists, with an estimated 200million units sold. In a notable two-decade career, he has been acclaimed for redefining contemporary Indian film music and contributing to the success of several films. Rahman has also become a notable humanitarian and philanthropist, donating and raising money for a number of causes and charities. In 2017, Rahman made his debut as a director and writer for the film Le Musk.

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Adivasi

Adivasi is the collective term for the indigenous peoples of mainland South Asia.

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Alka Yagnik

Alka Yagnik (born 20 March 1966) is an Indian playback singer.

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Ashutosh Gowariker

Ashutosh Gowariker (born 15 February 1964) is an Indian film director, actor, screen-writer and producer.

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Association for India's Development

The Association for India's Development, Inc.

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Ayan Mukerji

Ayan Mukerji (or Mukherjee) (born 15 August 1983) is an Indian film director, from the cinema prominent Mukherjee-Samarth family.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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Bollywood Movie Awards

The Bollywood Movie Awards was an annual film award ceremony held between 1999 and 2007 in Long Island, New York, United States, celebrating films and actors from the Bollywood film industry based in Mumbai, India.

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Box Office India

Box Office India is an Indian website Currently, its traffic ranking in India is 34,887 as of 30 December 2016.

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Chigurida Kanasu

Chigurida Kanasu (ಚಿಗುರಿದ ಕನಸು) is a 2003 Indian Kannada film directed by T. S. Nagabharana and starring Shiva Rajkumar, Rekha Unnikrishnan and Avinash.

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Cult following

A cult following is a group of fans who are highly dedicated to a work of culture, often referred to as a cult classic.

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Daya Shankar Pandey

Daya Shankar Pandey (born 19 November 1965) is an Indian film and television actor.

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Delhi

Delhi (Dilli), officially the National Capital Territory of Delhi (NCT), is a city and a union territory of India.

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Drama (film and television)

In reference to film and television, drama is a genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone.

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Filmfare Award for Best Actor

The Filmfare Award for Best Actor is an award, begun in 1954, presented annually at the Filmfare Awards to an actor for the best performance in a leading role in Hindi cinema.

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Filmfare Award for Best Background Score

The Filmfare Best Background Score is given by the Filmfare magazine as part of its annual Filmfare Awards for Hindi films.

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Filmfare Awards

The Filmfare Awards are presented annually by The Times Group to honour both artistic and technical excellence of professionals in the '''Hindi''' language film industry of India.

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Flute

The flute is a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group.

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Gandhism

Gandhism is a body of ideas that describes the inspiration, vision and the life work of Mohandas Gandhi.

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Gayatri Joshi

Gayatri Joshi (गायत्री जोशी) is a model turned Bollywood actress.

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Global Indian Film Awards

Global Indian Film Awards was an awards ceremony held between 2005 and 2007, conceptualized to acknowledge excellence in the Indian Film industry and honour artists in 28 categories across various genres, from acting to film making.

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Global Precipitation Measurement

Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) or Global Precipitation Index (GPI) is a joint mission between JAXA and NASA as well as other international space agencies to make frequent (every 2–3 hours) observations of Earth’s precipitation.

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Hariharan (singer)

Hariharan (born 3 April 1955) is an Indian playback and ghazal singer, whose songs have been featured mainly in Tamil, Hindi, Malayalam, Kannada, Marathi, Bhojpuri and Telugu films.

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Hindi

Hindi (Devanagari: हिन्दी, IAST: Hindī), or Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: मानक हिन्दी, IAST: Mānak Hindī) is a standardised and Sanskritised register of the Hindustani language.

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Hrithik Roshan

Hrithik Roshan (born 10 January 1974) is an Indian actor who appears in Bollywood films.

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Javed Akhtar

Javed Akhtar (born 17 January 1945) is an Indian poet, lyricist and screenwriter.

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Jitesh Pillai

Jitesh Pillai is an Indian journalist and present editor of Filmfare magazine.

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K. J. Yesudas

Kattassery Joseph Yesudas (born 10 January 1940) is an Indian musician and film playback singer.

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K. S. Chithra

Krishnan Nair Shantakumari Chithra, often credited as K. S. Chithra or simply Chithra, is an Indian playback singer from Kerala.

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K. Shivaram Karanth

Kota Shivaram Karanth (10 October 1902 – 9 December 1997) was a Kannada writer, social activist, environmentalist, polymath, Yakshagana artist, film maker and thinker.

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Kailash Kher

Kailash Kher is an Indian film music composer and pop - rock based singer, he sung songs with a music style influenced by Indian folk music and Sufi music.He is a prominent singer in Hindi Gujarati, Nepali, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Bengali, Odia and Urdu languages.

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Kennedy Space Center

The John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC) is one of ten National Aeronautics and Space Administration field centers.

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Kishori Ballal

Kishori Ballal is a veteran Indian actress who is known for her works in Kannada cinema.

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Lekh Tandon

Lekh Tandon (13 February 1929 – 15 October 2017) was an Indian filmmaker and actor.

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Madhukar Dhumal

Madhukar Dhumal is an Indian Shehnai Player, Composer and freelance Musician.

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Madhushree

Madhushree (born Sujata Bhattacharya; 2 November 1969) is an Indian singer, who sings in Hindi, Bengali, Kannada, Tamil and Telugu films.

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Maharashtra

Maharashtra (abbr. MH) is a state in the western region of India and is India's second-most populous state and third-largest state by area.

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Mahatma Gandhi

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was an Indian activist who was the leader of the Indian independence movement against British rule.

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Mahesh Aney

Mahesh Aney is a National Film Award-winning Indian cinematographer.

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Makarand Deshpande

Makarand Deshpande (born 6 March 1966) is an Indian film actor, writer, and director in Hindi, Kannada, Marathi, Telugu, Malayalam cinema, and Indian Theatre.

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Mayank Shekhar

Mayank Shekhar is an Indian film critic, journalist and author.

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Menawali

Menawali (मेणवली) is a village about three kilometres from Wai in the Satara district.The village's claim to fame is due to the palace (wada) built by Nana Fadnavis,18th century Maratha statesman and the regent of Peshwa Madhavrao II.

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Mid Day

Mid Day (stylised as mid-day) is a morning daily Indian compact newspaper.

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Mohammed Aslam

Mohammed Aslam is a playback singer from South India.

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Narmada Bachao Andolan

Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) is a social movement consisting of adivasis, farmers, environmentalists and human rights activists against the number of large dams being built across the Narmada River, which flows through the states of Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra.

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Narmada River

The Narmada, also called the Rewa and previously also known as Nerbudda,even Shankari, is a river in central India and the sixth longest river in the Indian subcontinent.

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NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research.

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National Film Award for Best Cinematography

The National Film Award for Best Cinematography is one of the National Film Awards presented annually by the Directorate of Film Festivals, the organisation set up by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, India.

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National Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer

The following is a list of winners of the National Film Award (Silver Lotus Award) for Best Male Playback singer.

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National Film Awards

The National Film Awards is the most prominent film award ceremonies in India.

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Naveen Kumar (musician)

Naveen Kumar is an Indian flautist who has accompanied many film music directors and composers on popular Bollywood tracks.

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Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: The Forgotten Hero

Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: The Forgotten Hero is a 2004 Indian biographical war film, written and directed by Shyam Benegal.

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New (film)

New is a 2004 Tamil fantasy comedy film directed, written and produced by S. J. Surya, who also features in the lead role alongside Simran.

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Non-resident Indian and person of Indian origin

No description.

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Panchathan Record Inn and AM Studios

The Panchathan Record Inn & AM Studios are composer/music director A. R. Rahman's studios on his street at Kodambakkam, Chennai in Tamil Nadu.

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Rajesh Vivek

Rajesh Vivek Upadhyay (31 January 1949 – 14 January 2016) was an Indian actor.

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Ronnie Screwvala

Rohinton Soli "Ronnie" Screwvala is a first generation Indian entrepreneur and philanthropist.

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S. P. Balasubrahmanyam

Sripathi Panditaradhyula Balasubrahmanyam (born 4 June 1946) mostly referred to as S.P.B. or Balu is an Indian playback singer, music director and film producer who works predominantly in Telugu, Tamil and Kannada cinema.

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Sadhana Sargam

Sadhana Sargam (born 7 March 1969) is a playback singer of Indian cinema with a career spanning over three decades.

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Sanjay Puran Singh Chauhan

Sanjay Puran Singh Chauhan (born 8 October) is an Indian film director and screenwriter, who is most known for his internationally acclaimed film Lahore.

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Screen Award for Best Female Debut

The Star Screen Award for Most Promising Newcomer – Female is chosen by a distinguished panel of judges from the Indian Bollywood film industry and the winners are announced in January.

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Screen Awards

The Star Screen Awards, is an annual awards ceremony held in India honouring professional excellence in the Bollywood Film Industry.

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Shah Rukh Khan

Shah Rukh Khan (born Shahrukh Khan; 2 November 1965), also known as SRK, is an Indian film actor, producer and television personality.

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Shehnai

The shehnai, shenoy, sanai, shahnai, shenai, shanai or mangal vadya or sahanai (शहनाई, শানাই, सनई, ଶାହାନାଇ, ಸನಾದಿ) is a musical instrument similar to the oboe, common in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.

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Soundtrack

A soundtrack, also written sound track, can be recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, book, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film, video or television presentation; or the physical area of a film that contains the synchronized recorded sound.

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Srinivas

Srinivas (Sanskrit श्रीनिवास) is a name for males in India as well as a family surname.

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Stardust Award for Best Director of the Year

The Stardust Dream Director Award is chosen by a distinguished jury as part of the annual Stardust Awards.

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Stardust Awards

The Stardust Awards is an award ceremony for Hindi movies, which is sponsored by Stardust magazine.

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Swadeshi movement

The Swadeshi movement, part of the Indian independence movement and the developing Indian nationalism, was an economic strategy aimed at removing the British Empire from power and improving economic conditions in India by following the principles of swadeshi and which had some success.

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T-Series

T-Series is an Indian film music and production company founded by Gulshan Kumar in the 1980s.

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T. L. Maharajan

Tiruchi Loganathan Maharajan is a musician.

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The Telegraph (Calcutta)

The Telegraph is an Indian English daily newspaper founded and continuously published in Kolkata since 7 July 1982.

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The Times of India

The Times of India (TOI) is an Indian English-language daily newspaper owned by The Times Group.

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Tushar Gandhi

Tushar Arun Gandhi (born 17 January 1960) is the son of journalist Arun Manilal Gandhi, grandson of Manilal Gandhi and great-grandson of M.K. Gandhi.

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Udit Narayan

Udit Narayan Jha, credited as Udit Narayan (born 1 December 1955), is a playback singer of Nepalese descent whose songs have been featured mainly in Nepali and Bollywood movies.

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Uttar Pradesh

Uttar Pradesh (IAST: Uttar Pradeś) is a state in northern India.

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UTV Motion Pictures

UTV Motion Pictures (also known as Disney-UTV) is the feature film unit of UTV Software Communications.

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Vaali (poet)

Vaali (born T. S. Rangarajan; 29 October 1931 – 18 July 2013) was an Indian poet and lyricist whose works were in Tamil, had a five-decade long association with the Tamil film industry, wrote over 15,000 songs.

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Vijay Prakash

Vijay is an Indian music composer from Mysore, Karnataka.

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Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre

The Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) is a major space research centre of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), focusing on rocket and space vehicles for India's satellite programme.

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Zee Cine Award for Best Female Debut

The Zee Cine Award Best Female Debut is chosen by the jury.

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Zee Cine Awards

The Zee Cine Award (ZCA) is an awards ceremony for the Hindi film industry.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swades

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