Rocket Singh - Salesman of the Year Review

Hey, what's going on in film industry? I guess they have buckled up now to show the world that they are not behind anyone for any reason. After a mind blasting movie series they have another rocking flick "Rocket Singh", directed by Shimit Amin, taking the Indian film industry ahead and that too rocket fast. As it unarguably stands among the few recent movies representing the superlatively Growing Hindi Film Industry. In short the best time of the year is here with another worth watching movie for all the desperate viewers after the last week's gem "Paa" and "Ajab Prem Ki Gazab Kahani" as it represents Ranbir Kapoor in yet another different avatar.

Shimit again returns with another brilliant work which with again a huge contribution coming from his previous writer Jaideep Sahni. Shimit's is now surely graduated in giving his films delicate treatment of the subject that never slides down and maintaining a solid grip on the movie and the viewers right till its impressive climax. Interestingly, you can make this conclusion that all the incidents that is stated in the movie strongly point towards some similar personal experiences of either Shimit or Jaideep in their past. Jaideep wonderfully comes up with the most original description of his characters quite close to his previous flicks which also revolved around Delhi and its Punjabi culture. Taking into account all their works together in the past, the writer-director duo is a great team in formation and you can easily expect many more brilliant projects coming from them in the near future.

While watching "Rocket Singh" you will surely not find the usual bollywood kind of stuff that has the same ages old mixture of horrifying action, blooming love & forced comedy. Many of my friends did not like appreciate the movie much, but I felt that for a change this movie is simple and refreshing and that too with everything just in the right proportions as required by the situations. The movie doesn't have any story between that is not necessary nor any unwanted song that came from nowhere just to make the movie monotonous. Infact this story a great attempt made by a thinking team strictly to compete with other world projects which are usually based on variety of subjects written around our day to day routine life.

The story is about a fresh and honest graduated young boy who is searching for a decent career opportunity and as he always knew that sales field is the coolest he gets into it. His evil minded colleagues and seniors in his office help him alter into a clever and strategic businessman. But as explained before (evil minded), in the process of his alteration he also has to decide on for some immoral means and starts using his present sales job office and resources for his own personal benefit. But what is to look at is that the original plot not only put light on the leg breaking and cut throat competition in the Sales career but also enhanced the story by showcasing the difficulty faced by the innocent and blameless customers due to the mal practices adopted by these service providers. The film begins slowly and starts catching on the viewer's attention with its to the point narrative and highly realistic sequences. In fact, most of the you will find it very easy to relate with various characters in the script as they portrayed just like the real life people we meet in our day-to-day life or even you yourself.

Well if talking about the performance showground there are appreciating things to state about almost everyone in the cast and even in the crew. Ranbir Kapoor have once again excelled made the whole Kapoor clan feel proud of their young energetic and hardworking kid as he is portraying the character of a Sikh salesman and with no doubt he is looking so much real that while watching him on screen, not even once you feel that he is in a fictional get up of a Sikh. His choice of projects after the unexpected previous debacle, he clearly proves that even he is gifted with cinematic sense and intuition power like others in his family. In simple words he just gets into the body of Harpreet Singh Bedi as a soul delivering an effortless, furiously enjoyable and the most impressive performance of his career.

Other characters like, Prem Chopra has delivered an impressive cameo. Gauhar Khan does her role of a receptionist really well and she has surely got the oomph factor to burn the screen in her. Shazahn Padamsee looks fresh and confident as Ranbir's customer cum friend. The casting done for the film is perfectly chosen as they skillfully acting as true to life realistic characters, and how to forget the computer engineer and his sexy glowing desktop in the night.

The only possible mistake for the lack of interest in the viewer was that the marketing team of "Rocket Singh" has incorrectly promoted the film as a comedy flick. The promos where Ranbir is dancing to the tune of "Pocket Mein Rocket Hai" that clearly giving an idea of the movie being a funny take on office politics and life of a salesman. Whereas in your perception surely changes after watching the film as it's a sensible story of a young fresh graduate who tries to make an impressive and confident mark in his very first job as a salesman. However, it has many comedy sequences coming in at regular interval throughout, but still that does not allow anybody to simply call it a comedy movie. Therefore, once again it is an example of wrong promotion tried by the makers to bring in some more crowds in the opening weekend. But again for the warning purpose I will state that it is not just a comedy flick go for it if you really want to see a fresh, cool and uplifting movie completely different from what we have been seeing in all this year.

Cinematography is nothing exceptional and Salim-Sulaiman music is just above average as always with all the songs used shortly and wonderfully along with the background score. In short, "Rocket Singh" is one of those few movies which are rarely made without thinking of any flattering box office results. If majority of the viewers like it then that could be concluded as a good sign of progress being made in the Indian Cinema. People who like to explore the bollywood new choice of subjects and have a desire to change their taste and perception towards bollywood then this movie is highly recommended to them.