MOHAN TO MANMOHAN- A movie review of

´Swades based on management concepts:
 INTRODUCTION
 
Manmohan in hindi means everyone’s favorite. Here I am
going to put up a review of the film Swades based on the
management concepts. Mohan to Manmohan here refers
to two interpretations:-
1.How a person can be a transformational leader. How an
ordinary person can become extraordinary.
2.By giving this title I also meant that Swades is a question
raised to all the citizens of our country including our Prime
minister about
• What is India and What it can be 
 The film opens with the following
quotation from Gandhi JI.
• “Hesitating to act because the whole vision might not be achieved,
or because others do not yet share it, is an attitude that only
hinders progress.”

•  Set in modern day India, Swades is a film that tackles the issues
that development throws up on a grass root level. It is to this India,
which is colorful and complex that Mohan Bhargava(Shah Rukh
Khan), a bright young scientist working as a project manager in
NASA, returns to on a quest to find his childhood nanny. The story
revolves around 3 main characters Mohan, Kaveri Amma,  Gita and
 hundreds of innocent villagers of  Charanpur. Mohan's simple
quest becomes the journey that every one of us goes through in
search of that elusive place called "home“.
• MANAGEMENT LESSONS:-

1. First lesson which struck me is from the title of the movie

Swades We, the People Swades shows how teamwork pays,
especially in the scenes where Mohan and the
villagers work together to bring in electricity in Charanpur.
The title envisions the emerging concepts of HR i.e from I
to we concept.
2. Mohan portrays a true leader in Swades. We have instances
of Mohan’s leadership in which certain inevitable qualities
of a leader like:

 
 
• Knowledge
• Patience
• Initiative
• Negotiation skills
• Motivational Skill
• Empathy
• Ready to take responsibility attitude
• According to me Mohan represents a true
transformational leader who changes the destiny
of as mall village and leaves a question in
everyone’s mind
• Can I be a leader who can uproot the problems
of India and make it shine?
• Gita also has shown certain leadership qualities
in this film. She has taken the initiative to be in
Charanpur with a mission of empowering the
village with a try until you succeed attitude.
3.RESISTANCETO CHANGEAND CHANGEMANAGEMENT:
• Another management lesson which we can see in Swades is the
concept of Change management. Initially the attitudes of the
villagers were orthodox. They did not send girls to schools children
after 5th standard. It was because of financial disability and
distance. But Mohan, Gita and a few villagers changed their
attitude. They convinced them about the benefits of sending all
their children to school and made the understand the importance
of education. Thus a resistance to change was transformed into a
positive change. Indian government also learned some lessons and
made the education up to 10thstandard fee of cost.  
• Another instance of change management is the electricity
generation in a village which lived in darkness for decades
4. Kaveri Amma- The real HR strategist. Kaveri Amma, Mohan’s
Nanny had a clear cut idea of how to solve her dilemma. She
understood both Gita and Mohan and made them encounter right
situations so that they all reach a consensus of remaining in India.
Similar to Kaveri Amma, all the managers needs to be strategists.
They should know their people, place them rightly to get the
glimpses of success. 
 
5. OTHER LESSON:
 
• Focus on goal. 
• Change in Perception 
• Importance of Indianisation of corporate goals, activities etc.
 CONCLUSION

• Swades is a movie which depicts the typical trend

of Indian youth.
• Learn from India and leave India to earn 
• - This is the attitude of most of the young Indians.
Management lessons learned should be applied
in all Indian minds to bring in a change in attitude
in them. We need to be more responsible and
responsive on what is happening around us. So
Swades is an invitation and a challenge to all
young managers of India..Can we change India by
using our management concepts?
THANK YOU