Jaideep Sahni’s script and dialogue do make sense and they go hand in hand with what the film is supposed to show, but in a tortoise’s speed. Yes, the film moves very slowly. Slowly to such an extent that at times you forget how many times you yawned throughout the movie. Nonetheless, Rocket Singh succeeds to land safely, balancing its plot that is executed carefully but still has some loopholes that make this movie quite boring.
Instead of stretching the movie to more than two and half hours, had director Shimit Amin shortened it to one hour, Rocket Singh would have rocketed on the Bollywood charts. With good and bad reviews it has been receiving so far,the movie has still not recovered its production costs even after a week of its official release.
Honesty, modesty, skills and intelligence are no more keys to the trade world today; it is perhaps wit and speed that matters in the end is what the movie is all about. It is another reality that sales and business fundas are no rocket science. In the commercial world, everyone is in a rat race to meet their deadlines and even the worst can turn out to climb the ladder of success.
Harpreet Singh, from a not-so-well-off family background and with a graduation certificate which is an embarrassment to him, is completely unaware of business strategies. Student of sales and business, all that he dreamt of is becoming a professional salesman. Dignity and honesty are his principles. As this bearded sardarji steps out from the walls of his home to understand what the commercial world is like, he is left with disappointments.
Harpreet Singh, who has inherited nothing else but his integrity and a modest scooty gifted to him by his grandpa (Prem Chopra), does not find himself comfortable with what he faces as a salesman in his dream office, AYS Sales. His definition of a good salesman turns exactly the opposite once he becomes one. Like many of us, he has an honest and responsible person within him until he comes to face the real world. His modesty and honesty don’t seem to be working in the business world where everyone is just looting the other at any cost. He has two options: either change himself and adjust to the kind of world he is not comfortable with, or say goodbye to his dream of becoming a salesman. But this sardarji of high ambitions and dreams does not say yes to both the options. He reads between the lines and finds a new path to fulfill his dreams.
[Spoiler ahead] It is Rocket Singh Corp, the only sales office that promises to provide 24x7 services to its clients and that too at subsidized costs, which changes Harpreet’s life. While he continues his salesman job at AYS, he completes Rocket Singh Corp’s projects during the wee hours, and in no time his company booms in the market. But when the AYS chief finds out that the owner of Rocket Singh Corp is no one else than the “zero ability salesman” Harpreet Singh, he fires him immediately and takes over Rocket Singh Corp under the provision that Harpreet Singh and his other team members are not jailed.
Rocket Singh rolls ahead fantastically with Jaideep Shani’s neat script and dialogues but Amin’s poor execution of the plot makes it a dull motor ride which otherwise could have sped creatively. Salim Sulaiman Merchant’s music is nothing extraordinary to make it tick in the box office for long, and of course, it is Ranbir Kapoor who makes the show going throughout. Unlike in Kapoor’s other movies where his heroines shared equal credits, it is Ranbir Kapoor in this film that steals the entire show. It may have happened because the director focuses totally on this salesman, and other actors like Gauhar Khan and Shazahn Padamsee have very less to do in the film. To talk about the heroine’s role, though Shazahn plays the girlfriend of Kapoor, it is actually Gauhar Khan who captivates the audience as an item girl call operator in the sales business.
To sum up, Rocket Singh would certainly have reached high in the space had it carefully thought of its loopholes. Because of these minor mistakes in the movie, you feel like unboarding the flight before it lands.