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Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year is a 2009 Indian Hindi-language comedy-drama film directed by Shimit Amin, written by Jaideep Sahni and produced by Aditya Chopra under the Yash Raj Films banner. Marking the reunion of Amin, Sahni and Aditya Chopra after Chak De! India (2007), it stars Ranbir Kapoor as the titular lead Harpreet S. Bedi, with D. Santosh, Gauhar Khan and Naveen Kaushik in the leads roles. Prem Chopra, Manish Chaudhari and debutante Shazahn Padamsee, daughter of Alyque Padamsee and Sharon Prabhakar, play supporting roles.
Harpreet Singh Bedi (Ranbir Kapoor), a B. Com. graduate with approximately 39 percent marks, becomes a salesman with a big corporate computer assembly and service company, AYS, headed by MD Sunil Puri (Manish Chaudhari). Despite initial objections from sales head Nitin Rathore, Harpreet is taken in by Puri, and begins learning the tricks of the sales trade from Nitin. He is shown to live alone with his widowered grandfather P.S. Bedi (Prem Chopra), and a circle that comprises his best friends Sai Ram (Amol Parashar), the lawyer son of an IAS officer who wants Harpreet to pursue an MBA, and Aparna "Appy" Singh (Debi Dutta), a designer. Later, he is sent to his first major field visit, where manager S.P. Chaudhary (Rajesh Jais) asks for a kick-back. Disgruntled due to his honest nature, he drops a letter in the complaint box nearby, accusing Chaudhary. However, when Nitin and Puri strongly condemn his actions and threaten to fire him as Chaudhary is a huge client, he feels humiliated and is isolated by the other salespersons, who are enraged after their targets are raised due to Harpreet's actions; they throw paper airplanes onto him as an insult.
Harpreet is unable to do anything, but after the appointment of a new senior manager, is able to take software operator Girish "Giri" Reddy (D. Santosh) and receptionist Koena Shaikh (Gauahar Khan) into confidence. Koena gives him the lead to a customer, Sherena Khanna (Shazahn Padamsee), who lives within his previously assigned "sales zone". A fashion entrepreneur living with her colleague Ayesha, she is initially disappointed by Harpreet's pitch, but calms him down, and he agrees to help her. Quite soon, he realizes that sales success depends on customer satisfaction, meaning that bribery will not be necessary to secure contracts. After making concessions to Sherena, he decides to found a new enterprise, Rocket Sales Corporation, from within AYS, naming it after the paper airplanes thrown at him. With this, he decides to make Giri and Koena partners in the venture.
Rocket Sales Corporation is being managed from within the AYS offices, with Giri later revealing that the tea-server, Chotelal Mishra, has a knack for assembling computer parts; they decide to make him an equal partner too. Usually working at night, they are later discovered by Nitin, who is rather reluctantly admitted into the venture and becomes a partner; in the process, he gradually abandons some of the typical AYS tricks he usually played, including bribes. Meanwhile, with Puri's humiliation of him in Chaudhary's presence still fresh in his mind, Harpreet decides to lock horns with Puri, seeking to avenge his humiliation.
The five-member company targets previous clients of AYS, who were irritated with AYS's attitude, and soon enjoys a strong client reputation. The company soon becomes successful because of its dedication to excellent customer service. Although it does not make much profit, Rocket Sales Corporations is able to make a huge difference. AYS's sales start decreasing as many of the clients cancel their orders and place orders at Rocket Sales, which offers them better services. Harpreet starts a relationship with Sherena in the process.
Enraged over this success, as he coaxes Nitin to discover the truth in exchange for a promotion to the post of Vice-President, Puri moves quickly to attempt to contact the MD of Rocket Sales Corporation and in a phone conversation attempts to entice him to sell Rocket Sales Corporation to AYS, little realizing it is Harpreet, who not only rejects Puri's offer but claims that Rocket Sales Corporation will buy AYS Computers. Afraid of Puri's attempts, Harpreet's partners have a discussion and move their headquarters to Sherena's house, making her a partner in the process. After multiple failed attempts in locating the Rocket Sales Corporation office, Puri decides to call the number on Rocket Sales Corporation's brochures and the phone at the AYS reception desk begins to ring. Realizing the truth when he sees Giri picking up, he walks in on the team.
As the story ends, it shows an interviewee visiting the Rocket Sales Corporation office building. The firm is implied to be very successful, with P.S. Bedi joining in as the accounts manager; it shows the former AYS employees, all partners of the business, and finally closes with Harpreet smiling genially at a desk, showing that in the long run, honesty and hard work are sound business practices.
Film critic Rachel Saltz of New York Times called it "a smart, focused Bollywood movie" and commended Ranbir Kapoor for "turning in a skillfully understated performance"[3] while Anupama Chopra in her NDTV review gave it 3 out 5 stars.[4]
Nikhat Kazmi in The Times of India gave 3 stars out 5.[5] While The Economic Times review gave it a 4 stars out of 5 and called it, "one of the most rocking films of the year".[6] An Outlook review by Namrata Joshi gave it 3 out of 5 stars, saying that the film "Marks a continuum and a departure from the middle-class cinema of Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Basu Chatterjee and Sai Paranjape."[7] Rajeev Masand of CNN-IBN gave the movie 3.5 stars out of 5.[8]
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).
Married to a 'salesman' (ok ok sales head!), working with the sales 'peoples' everyday, I could relate to every bit of this film, the setting and particularly, the protagonist though I have never done this selling bit ever in my life.
Dhanda
It is a tried and tested - 'underdog turns winner' story for Shimit Amin's Rocket Singh: Salesman of the year. Harpreet Singh Bedi played by Ranbir Kapoor the fresh graduate gets a job in a company that sells computers. Harpreet ends messing up a client deal that puts an end to his field job. Asked to do cold-(telephone) calls passing on leads to his colleagues, he starts his own outfit - Rocket sales, from the premises of his present office . Business does well and his company ends up getting all the deals from his employer. But Ranbir gets into a mish-mash when the employer gets to know of this and is thrown out of the office ....And finally... finally beating all odds emerges the real winner. Sounds familiar no?
Deal
The story is very simple with no contrived scenes except for those with the big boss. More on that later. Ranbir Kapoor is superb. No overacting. Looks like a real sardar. The scenes between Ranbir and his father played by Prem Chopra are not the usual 'Papaji-Puttarji-Gajjar ka halwa' kinds. NO KIRRON KHER as the Punjabi mom! Infact, No mom at all.
Who is that guy who has played Ranbir's immediate boss? Good performance. Gauhar Khan is the itemized girl in the movie. Another relief was except for one song (which slackened the pace) there were no songs at all.