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I speak to mental health expert Vinay Nair on Kaira’s journey of self-awareness in the movie Dear Zindagi, which brings to light mental health issues, our struggles with them and how we seek help and deal with them

In a career there are moments where we let people go or find ourselves being fired. How do we deal with that? A look at the world of firing people for a living through the work of Ryan Bingham

A sun-kissed Jamaica wants to send a bobsleigh team to the wonder Olympics. Their coach is a man who had to leave the sport because he had cheated. Great lessons on making bizarre dreams come true while redeeming yourself

T.E. Lawrence was immortalised in this David Lean masterpiece where a low ranking British Officer goes beyond his job description to script an Arab revolution that many a General could not. Attitude determines Altitude

After several successful title defences, Rocky Balboa finds himself upstaged by a younger, hungrier fighter and needs to dig deep to re-discover the “eye of the tiger”

Neil Armstrong in “First Man” is projected as a first-rate stoic, something that gives him the edge on a life and death mission but also alienated him from his loved ones equally

Leadership faces its toughest test when confronted with a crisis. Commissioner Rathod plays a car and mouse game with a terrorist to safeguard Mumbai and demonstrates the behaviour and thinking of crisis-produced lewdership

We look at Larry the Liquidator as he tries to buy an aeging yet asset-rich family-run company and how it brings out the conflict in defining the purpose of the existence of firms.

Leadership can be learnt and the most self-aware leaders are effective in appealing to the self-concept of their followers in motivating them. We trace Karan Shergill’s journey towards a stronger self-concept and leadership

Tom Hanks as Commander Krause gives us a lesson on how to be an “informed skeptic” while taking decisions that affect the lives of thousands of crew members

Join me as we look at the back story of Ray Kroc, who founded McDonald’s but not before learning the ropes from the McDonald brothers who were put out of business by him

Is your Organization a cult? And your leader behaving like a cult leader? We explore cult-like leaders as we look at Capt Jack Aubrey who was leading his men into unchartered waters to settle a score.

How do leaders rebound from failures? Join me as we look at how Kabir Khan constructs a series of redemptive sequences to regain lost glory

Bhuwan debunks the “Great Man” theory of leadership to demonstrate a vision that none of his contemporaries shared and then worked with them towards the objective of beating the British at their game to get a tax break for his village

A military biopic that should have inspired women to take up a career in the armed forces has turned into an inauthentic and disputable take on the life of a brave helicopter pilot. What can we learn from it?

Are movies just about entertainment? I don’t think so. Join me every week as I dissect one popular movie at a time and walk you through all that you can learn from it, apart from getting entertained