A successful Indian-American NASA engineer returns to his ancestral village in India, rediscovers his roots, and decides to stay for good — not out of pity, but to help solve a basic problem: lack of electricity.
The screenplay is masterfully paced. There are no villains. The antagonist is apathy . Gowariker uses Mohan’s NASA background poetically. The film opens with a satellite image of the earth—India is just a dot. But by the end, that dot is the whole universe.
If you are an NRI living abroad, this film will trigger an existential crisis. If you are a villager, it will validate your struggles. If you are a city-bred elite, it will shame you into action.