Leadership lessons from movies: a case study of selected movies preaching basic principles of leadership

The term “Leadership” often deals with many important aspects of human behavior usually in a particular group or group-based activities. A leader either leads or destroys a particular group or society or a nation. It is the action of the leader, his decision making ability, approach, view and vision that are responsible for survival and success of any particular organization.

The portrait of a good leader is depicted, projected and presented in many forms and views. In order to learn what leadership is, there are many techniques that are followed and adopted by different groups and organizations. One such important method to explain the concept of leadership in action is to understand and read the values and principles offered through certain select role models in the movies. Hindi Cinema has contributed to the concept of leadership and its application in many ways. There are many significant and remarkable movies that are having the central theme as to how a leader influences, changes and deals moral of the group, develops them to work in a particular manner, achieve the set targets and accomplish the given mission. The present paper is related with what is the purpose of leadership as depicted in certain select Hindi movies. The author has tried to evaluate leadership principles given in certain select movies. From all the movies under study, the researcher has identified certain select events which are useful to explain the concept of leadership in action. Similarly the researcher has tried to find the secrets of leadership that are presented in these movies.