Although successful and reasonably well off, the longing for home, and the desire to be among their own people, has never truly left. Growing up, I could always sense the alienation and loneliness my parents felt, leading lives away from their hometowns. As a child of chaste Tamil Brahmin parents leading their lives in the heart of big bad North India, I felt a sense of connection with the immigrant Mohan Bhargava, a project manager for NASA in the US, who leaves his hometown in pursuit of his dreams. I remember watching Ashutosh Gowariker’s Swades in a packed theatre in 2004, possibly my first memory of a Shah Rukh Khan film in a cinema hall, that now-impossible community viewing experience essential to the cinematic medium.
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