Swades is a 2004 Indian drama film written, produced and directed by Ashutosh Gowariker.
Swades was the first Indian film to be shot inside the NASA research center at the Launch Pad 39A of the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.The rainfall monitoring satellite known as the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) in the film is an actual NASA mission and was launched in 2014.
A major part of the movie was shot in Menawali, Maharashtra.
