Rocket Singh - Salesman Of The Year Kannada Movie Download 720p
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Great review Rangan. The supporting cast really stole the show here. Quite unlike a Yash Raj movie to not have showpiece songs though. Pocket mein rocket didnt even make an appearance towards the end!
But the movie was too long. I think the last half hour could have been made crispier with faster cuts/edits..actually the climax could have been movies most interesting bit had it been made more imaginative
For some inexplicable reason this movie did not satiate me. I get what they were trying to do, but for some reason felt Sahni was somehow limited by the 120/160 minutes of screen time he had. I would really prefer to see a novel/novella on Rocket Singh and his thought process, his philosophy etc. In fact in a lot of places I felt there was time wasted, really!
And I get the supporting characters, they are truly delicious, especially Gauhar Khan. Man that expression on her face, bordering on the impatience that comes with efficiency of having grown out of your current job and aspiring to do something bigger, loftier even, but being stuck in a cubby hole is simply outstanding!
The above apart, of interest to me is the link between Punjabi urban culture and this growing punjabiness in bollywood. Take for example a typical urban middle-upper to upper-middle class Punjabi wedding (be it hindu or sikh). What used to be an event driven more by traditional rituals, relative seriousness and more convergence with other forms of hindu weddings across india, has now evolved into a sho-sharaba affair with multiple events (cocktail night/s, sangeet, mehendi night, wedding, reception etc), with fairly elaborate dressing up, and a wholesome in-your-face filminess that was surely non-existent 20+ years ago. Is it a coincidence that bollywood sees this flamboyance in Punjabi society and then naturally links ostentatiousness, glitz and glam to Punjabi culture, and thereby incorporates that same punjabinessin their movies to create the same perceived effect??? And then again, people see the punjabiness in the movies and this obviously shapes the pop culture even more. So all in all, a repeating cycle really.
Musafir, glorification of punjabi culture appeals to the pakistanis too, majority of whom are punjabis. Therefore the disgraceful bollywood filmakers lead by Aadha Chopra and Karak Joker have decided to cater to the pakistanis, punjabis and to the other non-Hindu audience. Major reason why Hindi films have distanced themselves from Hindu culture.
The friend of Harpreet Singh, Sai, who advises him to give CAT is an IIT graduate himself, Amol Parashar. It was natural for him to fit into that role and admonish his friend to settle for a safe path rather than become a salesman and suffer all his life.
The character of Nitin Rathore was also one which stood out. He had his family to support. Coming from a middle class background, he could have easily been wheedled into accepting the offer which Puri was making. But he left his job, and took the risk of helping Rocket Singh Corp which was a clandestine company running in another company. He suffers just like others and has to apply for jobs once the secret of Rocket Singh Corp is out.
The character of Giri is also very endearing. He is supposedly the only engineer working in a company full of salesperson. The idea of showing him obsessed with skimpily clad women and downloading all that stuff from his computer is the done thing in all enginerring college hostels. He comes out as the only person whom Harpreet can initially rely. Later he has his own share of doubts and compromises (when he has to share profit in Rocket Sales Corp with other partners).
Amazingly, the skilled Chak De team of director Shimit Amin and writer Jaideep Sahni manage to capture this honesty across the entire film, making Rocket Singh a pleasurable experience. Of course, it helps that they have a magician called Ranbir Kapoor by their side.
There seems to be no stopping Ranbir, who is leaping light years ahead of his peers with every new release. Forget the superstar tag, for that is already his to own. More interestingly, Ranbir seems to be a star who is a naturally brilliant actor, willing to break convention to essay different roles, even if they be non hero like. After Wake up Sid and Ajab Prem, Ranbir once again delivers an absolutely flawless performance, this one even more remarkable since he plays a sardar. After years of watching sardars being used as the butt of all jokes in Bollywood, it is great to see a simple, hard working sardar, gently played by Ranbir.
Rocket Singh is the story of Happy Singh Bedi, a middle class sardar boy who stays with his dadaji (Prem Chopra). After barely managing to pass college, Happy gets a job as a trainee salesman at At Your Service (AYS) company, which sells computers. Even as he is learning the tricks of selling, a customer asks for a bribe. The honest Happy not only refuses, but also lodges a complaint. This freaks out the owner Puri (Manish Choudhari), who publicly humiliates him and relegates him to a desk job. The entire sales team is punished for the lost order, so they too start disliking him intensely. Finally, in a trying scene, Puri gleefully calls him a duffer and a gadha, the ultimate zero. From here on Happy decides to start his own company, called Rocket Sales, a reference to the paper rockets the office staff keeps pelting him with. The difference is that he continues to work in AYS office, where he pretends to be a duffer. Slowly he starts getting orders to assemble computers, and he soon involves a few colleagues, making all of them partners. Eventually Rocket Sales become such a threat, that Puri even offers to buy it out. From here on the screenplay gets a bit boring in bits, but Ranbir manages to hold it through.
A lot of Rocket Singh is shot in an office, making it a tough film to handle. Yet, Shimit Amin, who directed Ab tak chhapan and Chak de, displays a sure, steady hand. The dialogues in Rocket Singh are sharp yet easy on the ear, as expected from the talented Jaideep Sahni, and Pocket mai rocket hai is a bouncy track, though it lends a lot to the imagination. The ensemble cast, from the sales team to friends, does a great job, while Prem Chopra, Gauhaar Khan and D Santosh are impressive. In the end, Rocket Singh may not be a ha ha laugh aloud entertainer, but it is certainly a different story, well told. The masses may not take to Rocket Singh, but the classes should.