The year: 2004. The movie: Swades (Hindi for homeland). Shah Rukh Khan is playing the character of Mohan Bhargava, a non-resident Indian space scientist in the US. On a trip to meet his grandmother in India, Bhargava is appalled by the living conditions in her village, Charanpur, set in the plains near a river.
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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/electric-goes-local
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/kr-balasubramanyam
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/business-today-new-delhi
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/renewable-energy
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/biomass
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/electricity
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/rural-electrification
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/national-thermal-power-corporation-ntpc
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/ministry-new-and-renewable-energy
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/bihar
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/chhattisgarh