Chak De...

Though most part of it is a copy of Miracle, yet it is worth watching. I liked it very much.

The support from the men’s hockey team, losing to Australia in 1^st match, the furious match against Argentina and the one-to-one marking tactics in the match against Korea; all give different perspective to the movie.

Men’s hockey team couldn’t have done better than providing the much needed moral support to the Women’s hockey team. That was the start and the team never looked back. No matter how hard you try, unless there is somebody to support you big time, the going in life is always tougher.

Somehow I feel in every game of life, there is nothing bad to loose 1st time, learn from it and then win the next one. The amount of satisfaction, the feeling of glory and the sustainability of success; everything gets magnified in that case. Most importantly we tend to stay away from all complacencies since we know what failure means and how easy it is to turn the success to a failure. Unless Indian team lost to Australia in 1^st match, I don’t think they would have got the moral booster for the rest of the matches. It makes you try and remove even the slightest possible error in your approach. Probably it’s a human tendency to stay superficial till we commit some serious mistake. That’s why it’s good to commit it sooner than later.

It’s important that a team must be prepared to change its approach if required. And that too on the fly. The match against Argentina was a real example. The idea of treating the opposition with their own medicine was something appreciable. Do we really do that in our day to day life? At least in work place, I know most of us are stuck with the age-old processes. Probably a leader needs to identify that and take corrective action.

Keep a strong eye on the opposition. If you get to know their strategy, it becomes easy to design one for yourself. Most importantly, don’t let the opposition feel that you are playing against their strategy. Allow them to dominate for sometime, make them feel a little complacence and then attack when they are on the peak of their over confidence. Now you understand why Bindya Nayak(specialist on breaking the one-to-one marking) came as a replacement in the match against Korea, if not playing from the beginning.

All these things require a visionary leader to be on the front and that’s exactly where we had Kabir Khan. But I am still wondering about one thing. He noticed about the rivalry between two center forwards from the very 2^nd match. Then why did he wait till Final to bring that issue out? Was that a part of his strategy or was it something overlooked by him; a question that needs to be answered….