I was really impresed by the creative talents in the movie. They came up with an original concept and  a rather hard to pull off screnplay and a message very very important although the execution advocated might not be the most widely accepted one. I think the acting in the movie pretty good and these are signs that make one feel proud of the Hindi film industry. Hindi film industry has long been known for song and dance among action sequences. But here ou have a move where guys are singing and dancing but in a crowd at a party of in celebration or humming to a song on the car radio. I liked swades for the message it sent and the acting was pretty good and obviously i felt more connected to it, but if you read this ( http://www.sulekha.com/blogs/blogdisplay.aspx?cid=3701  and then http://arvindsaraf.blogspot.com/ ) you will feel how much more can be said about the
issue than what was said in the movie. I don't know the chronology of the sources I have quoted and permisson to mention them from the author is pending, but I feel there is room for a very strong movement in India towards transparency of thought and action in the public domain and responsibility cannot be shoved around till forgotten.