Chak De all set to enter MBA classroom

Chak De is the latest feather in the cap of Bollywood for inspiring future management gurus, reports Chetan Chauhan.

Updated on: Sep 12, 2007, 01:09:45 IST

Hindustan Times | By Chetan Chauhan, New Delhi

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Shahrukh Khan’s performance in his movie Chak De India not only seems to have inspired Indian men’s hockey team to register a brilliant performance in the recently concluded Asia Cup, it has also stirred the thinktanks of management schools. No wonder, the movie is all set to make its entry into the textbooks of management schools.

Chak De is the latest feather in the cap of Bollywood for inspiring future management gurus. Corporate, a movie on how MNCs operate did the corridors of management institutions last year and the Oscar-nominated Aamir Khan-starrer Lagaan, a few years ago. Both the movies were included as special case studies for MBA students by a few business schools.

Although Chak De India is based on a different subject, Shahrukh Khan, who plays the role of a disgraced hockey player-turned coach, shows immense man management skills.

It apparently became the driving force behind the decision of a business school near Chandigarh, Aryan Business School, to include a case study on Chak De India in the first year curriculum of its MBA course. “The film will be taken up as a case study for the management students who would study various aspects of management that can create good and effective leaders in future,” said Anshu Kataria, chairperson of the business school.

The movie shows Shahrukh Khan as a man of immense determination, an excellent man manager, having fine leadership qualities. Armed with these virtues, he inspires a motley group of hockey players into a world-beater.

Earlier, legendary movies such as Mother India and Pakeezah have been included in the NCERT curriculum but case studies on Bollywood movies in MBA course is a recent trend, educationists say.

A senior professor at National University for Educational Planning and Administration said new educational institutions are experimenting with curriculum. “They want to make it more realistic for the students. It is here the good Bollywood movies are making a significant difference,” said the educationists.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Chetan Chauhan
Chetan Chauhan is the National Affairs Editor looking into all aspects of news and features from across India. A Chevening scholar with over three decades of experience in reporting and news management, Chetan has extensively covered all important aspects of the social sector, political economy, environment and climate change nationally and internationally. He did a journalism course at the Reuters Institute of Journalism in Oxford and Digital Media training at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He started as a reporter with The Statesman in 1996 and joined the Hindustan Times in 2000 in the metro bureau covering environment, crime and Delhi politics. He covered hot local news, from the Jessica Lal murder case to the rebellion of Delhi Congress MLAs against then Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, to the replacement of toxic vehicle fuel with cleaner compressed natural gas (CNG) in the national capital. Some of his stories on air pollution became part of the Supreme Court’s landmark MC Mehta versus Government of India case in the National Capital Region (NCR), forcing the government to take corrective measures. As part of the national political bureau since 2004, he covered important central sectors such as environment, education, social justice, labour, rural development, water resources, renewable energy, agriculture, broadcasting and the Planning Commission for more than a decade producing several exclusive and investigative breaking stories. His specialisation is the environment, having covered at least a dozen United Nations global conferences on climate change, biodiversity and wildlife including climate summits in Paris, Copenhagen and Bali. He also covered India’s two five-year plans ---11th and 12th and reported on drafting and execution of right based laws such as Right to Education, Right to Information and rural job guarantee law, MG-NREGA, now being introduced in new format as VG-RAM-G Act. He has in-depth knowledge of social sector issues. He was one of the first to report on tigers vanishing from Sariska and Panna wildlife reserves in 2004 and 2008, respectively, leading to the setting up of the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) and the introduction of stringent penal provisions for poaching. He has written extensively on the rising human-animal conflict in India and the degradation of India’s biodiversity hotspots because of mining and other activities. Since 2004, Chetan has covered Parliament comprehensively and participated in training on the nuanced coverage of Parliament proceedings. He has travelled extensively across India to cover national and provincial elections since 1998, especially in the Hindi heartland states, considered India’s road to power. He writes a regular column for Hindustan Times, Ecostani, on important national politics, economy, Himalayan ecology and environmental issues. His other responsibilities include providing inputs for edits and edit page articles for the publication, apart from managing news flow from across India.Read More

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