Check De India!

I watched Check De India, this weekend. And found many management lessons in it. It’s an amazing movie made keeping sports business in mind.

Team Comes First! :- It stresses the importance of playing as a team. In fact, ¾ th of movie Kabir Khan tries to build a team, which mentally thinks and acts in one direction. And more ever, he keeps on telling his players to ‘pass’ the ball, instead of glorifying themselves by scoring more goals. One’s person ego or personal pride should not come in between, they were for common purpose of winning the championship and they need to make sure they achieve that.

This is an amazing lesson we can learn from this movie. We need to think about team first, individual later. This is the reason of success of any team. This is true with sports or with any business team.

Motivation: Kabir kept on motivating his team, even they lost a game. He had strong faith on his team that they will deliver and up to his expectation they did deliver.
It is foolish to assume that each team member is equally capable of delivering the things. But, keeping everyone’s contribution to peak level is what coaches do. They know in which area each player is good at and they make moves accordingly.

Strategy: The main job of a coach is to make strategic moves, keeping his team in mind and Kabir exactly did that. Be it breaking ‘one-to-one’ mapping of Koreans or thinking about the final penalty push to be a straight one and signaling his team member to prepare for that, he made good strategic moves.

Build the dream: Kabir built a dream in team members that we will win the world cup, this is all coaches and business leaders will have to do. It is ultimately up to players to perform and make things work. Coaches can’t play themselves and win; it is players who do that. Building the dream and making sure each player has the same passion and dedication is extremely important, Kabir did exactly that.

Attention to details: Coaches and business leaders need to keep attention to the details. In this movie, coach kept track of even a small thing that might distract the team thinking and tried to minimize such things. Like, having one bad player in the team, who wants to disturb the rhythm. He took some tough calls, but it was for team again. There was no personal ego involved in it.


As a movie, there might be some negatives points; and I am not here to discuss that. But the theme is about the team. Why team comes first and why team needs contribution from each one to be a successful. It is about setting a goal, and taking your team towards that, even though people call you ‘Tughalak’. This movie certainly gives message to corporate world.

Check de India!