Go to www.swades.com
Click on Enter HTML Site.
Click on Acknowledgements at the bottom right of the screen that comes up.
You see
rediff.com columnist
Dilip D'Souza, right?
Explanation: The director, Ashutosh Gowariker, says Dilip, got the idea for the film from a
column Dilip did for
rediff.com about two young engineers from Kerala who built a dam in rural Maharashtra and supplied electricity where there was none. That is what
Swades is about.
Says Dilip, "I had no idea about all this till about a month ago, when the person who told him (
Ashutosh)