Institute of Management

(Nirma University)

Managerial Skills for Effectiveness

Individual Assignment

Submitted By:
Muskan Babel
Roll No.: 211197
Section C
MBA-Full Time (2021-23)

Under the Guidance of:

Prof. Tania Shaw
Cast

Amitabh Bachchan as Dattatraya Vakharia

Rishi Kapoor as Babulal Vakharia, Dattatraya's son
Jimit Trivedi as Dhiru, Their servant

Plot

Dattatraya (Amitabh Bachchan) is a lively 102-year-old who lives his life to the maximum.
Although he is 102 years old, his heart is that of a 26-year old lad. He enjoys life and takes
everything in a jovial way. Babu (Rishi Kapoor), his son, is exactly the opposite. He believes
that he is now too old to enjoy life and lives a routine life. Dattatraya wants to break the
record of the oldest living person on earth, which is held currently by a Chinese man. He has
to live 16 more years to do so. But in order to maintain his health to live that long, he has to
stay away from negative-minded people. Therefore, he decides to send his son to an old age
home. Babu is very sad and worried to stay in an old age home as he is habituated to staying
and sleeping in his home for these many years. Dattatraya agrees not to send Babu to old age
home on a condition that Babu has to fulfill certain conditions, which his father would
impose on him on a regular basis.
 
The movie revolves around the conditions given to Babu, which he hesitates to fulfill initially
but fulfills them due to the fear of going to the old age home. The conditions imposed on
Babu change his way of looking at life.
 
The first condition is that Babu has to write a love letter to his deceased wife, Chandrika.
After a lot of thinking, he submits the letter to his father, who laughs and enjoys reading the
letter.
 
In the next condition, Dattatraya goes with Dhiru and Babu to Babu's doctor urging him to
call the doctor a thief. Dattatraya’s idea was to break the connection between Babu and his
doctor so that Babu stops going to the doctor's clinic every day for a check-up. Babu accepts
the condition to stop going to the doctor's clinic every day without calling him a thief.
 
After completing a few conditions, Babu starts seeing life in a jovial way, just like his father.
One condition that totally changes Babu's life was when he sent him with Dhiru to certain
parts of Mumbai which includes a visit to St. Sebastian's church. Babu starts to cry and
seeing him Dhiru asks Dattatraya. Dattatraya answers that Babu & his son Amol regularly
came here for prayers. But when Amol grew up he asked Babu to send him to the USA for a
brief time but instead settled there. He calls up Babu once in 6 to 7 months.
 
On Babu's birthday, Amol called up. Dattatraya, who considers Amol as a nuisance &
greedy, and a bad influence for Babu, doesn’t answer the call and also doesn't inform Babu
about this call. The same day, the flowers sent by Amol are intercepted by Dattatraya and not
handed over to Babu. Amol calls up again at night but once again Dattatraya doesn't inform
Babu about this call. He, in fact, deletes the call history from Babu's cell phone. The next
day, Dattatraya hands over the flowers to Babu. Babu gets upset that these flowers were not
handed to him earlier, and calls up Amol to thank him for his flowers. That's when Amol
informs him about the 2 missed calls and also that he is coming to meet Babu next month.
 
Babu gets angry at Dattatraya for withholding this information. Dattatraya reminds him of the
last 28 days of Babu's wife and the actions of Amol. Amol didn't even come to meet his
mother citing a lack of proper notice at his company. Then Dattatraya tells him about his last
condition: he has to kick Amol out of the house. Babu disagrees.
 
After some days, Babu comes into Dattatraya's room and finds that he has several placards
that say words about rebelling about Amol's entry into the house. To showcase the greediness
of Amol, Dattatraya calls up Amol. He gets an auto-reply that Amol is unavailable and ends
up recording the message that Dattatraya & Babu wants to discuss the property. Amol
immediately picks up the call and Dattatraya convinces him to reach Mumbai on the 19th of
that month. Babu still informs Dattatraya that he will not follow his last condition. Dattatraya
starts reading Amol's letters which Amol had sent for Babu and was intercepted in between
by Dattatraya. Each letter turns out to be materialistic and ends with "I hope you will
understand."
 
The next day, Babu gives Dattatraya an affidavit that states that Babu is giving his share of
the property to Amol. Dattatraya finally reveals that he has a brain tumor and doesn't have
much time left to live. He wanted to change Babu and that old age home and breaking that
record was just a set-up. Babu realizes that Amol is really greedy and Babu insults him and
asks him to return to the USA from the airport itself. Dattatraya tells him that if there is an
Amol then there is Dhiru also, indirectly asking him to accept Dhiru as the replacement for
Amol.
 
Dattatraya tells Babu to blow a whistle when he dies, to celebrate his outstanding feat, 102
years. At last, 102 not out becomes 102 out & Babu whistles. Dhiru gives a recorded tape to
Babu with a message that Dattatraya recorded 2 days before death. In that Dattatraya says
that he is sitting in a cloud, with the Chinese man beside him. He is telling the man that the
record will be broken by a man from his family, his son after another 43 years.
Analysis

I saw 102 Not Out, a fantastic movie by Umesh Shukla and powered by magical
performances of Amitabh Bachchan and Rishi Kapoor, and observed some of the fine points
which we shall include in our life... They are as below,

1 - Whatever the age can be, one must have inspired and motivating goals

In the movie, at 102 years, to stay motivated Amitabh Bachchan, brings an image of a person
who holds a record for longest life. And creates own goal to stay happy for more 16 years.
That was a shock for a son who was 76. A fantastic example of self-motivation and setting
standards...

2 - Love is a very strong feeling. Continue loving yourself to stay alive and kicking...
Most of the people lose hope with ageing and stop loving them self. They live for sympathy
and love from next generation. But to have self-esteem and loving self is the only solution to
stay alive and kicking at any age. With or without people you can stay happy with yourself.

3 - Learn to share your feelings and emotions, even with someone who holds more
power...

Sharing of own emotions and expressing self fully is needed. Sometimes we hide our
emotions and don't communicate what we want to... Communicating it in whatever form
opens a door for the next conversation. Keep communicating...

4 - Retrospection - to remember your journey and acknowledge what you had

It is important that after each milestone in life, we retrospect sweet/bitter memories...

Acknowledge self for what is done and not done... Being 'OK' with self and situations gives
the power to go ahead in life... Remembering people for sweet memories and their
contributions instead of being critical...
5 - Strong leaders, don't pass pressure but train successors in managing it

In the movie, an old man with age 102 comes to know that he will die soon. He decided not
to share this news with his son and family members. Instead, he created a plan to make his
successor capable to handle life without him. This is a sign of a strong leader, who passes on
legacy, art, and skills to the successor. Till last moment, he kept his illness a secret to avoid
passing pressure to the next one. Once he found him capable, shared his actual situation.

6 - Stay alive till the last day

Staying alive, happy, and continuing to contribute is a key to making life worth living. We
see many people around living pitiful life. Like your others also like happy people around...
Don't bug others with your bad attitude/mood. Take moments lightly, staying heavy will
reduce your life and happiness.

7 - Emotional Intelligence is a key

It is important to learn psychology, organizational behavior, and people skill to understand
the people around. Emotional intelligence (EQ) is a key to understanding/predicting the next
moves of people around, staying prepared as the decision-maker, and making the right
choices.