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| Directed by | Shimit Amin |
| Produced by | Yash Raj Films |
| Written by | Jaideep Sahni |
| Starring | Ranbir Kapoor Shazahn Padamsee Gauhar Khan Prem Chopra Manish Choudhary[1] |
| Music by | Salim-Sulaiman |
| Cinematography | Vikash Nowlakha |
| Editing by | Arindam Ghatak |
| Distributed by | Yash Raj Films |
| Release date(s) | 11 December 2009 |
| Running time | 156 min. |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
| Budget | 5 crore INR[2] |
| Box office | 20 crore INR[3] |
Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year is a Hindi film directed by Shimit Amin and produced by Yash Raj Films. Screenplay of the film is by Jaideep Sahni, who collaborated with Shimit Amin for Chak De! India. It stars Ranbir Kapoor, D.Santosh, Gauhar Khan & Naveen Kaushik in the leads roles. Prem Chopra and Shazahn Padamsee daughter of Alyque Padamsee and Sharon Prabhakar, who makes her debut in the film, play supporting roles.[4]
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Harpreet Singh Bedi (Ranbir Kapoor) , a Sikh B Com graduate with approximately 39 percent marks who becomes a salesman with a big corporate computer assembly and service company, AYS. His idealistic vision of the working world shatters quickly. Within a few days, a client asks for a kick-back. Harpreet is aghast and files a complaint. But his honesty only brings him a demotion and humiliation. After making concessions to a client for the company, Harpreet realizes that sales success is dependent on the customer. No one agrees with him but Harpreet remains firm on his belief and forms his own company in Rocket Sales Corporation. Other disgruntled employees find their way to Rocket Sales — a place where even the guy who serves tea is an equal partner because he brings talent to the table.
The company soon becomes successful because of its dedication to excellent customer service. The MD of AYS, Sunil Puri, becomes angered by the small company's success. After multiple attempts at contact, he finally calls and the phone at the AYS reception desk begins to ring as Rocket Sales was being managed from the AYS offices where the Rocket partners were still employed. After thoroughly insulting him and firing both him and his partners, the MD has Harpreet sign a contract handing over Rocket Sales to him and hands him his final pay of Rs. 1. However, AYS is unable to maintain Rocket Sales' commitment to customer satisfaction because of its cold and greedy personnel. The MD, realizing his downfall in purchasing Rocket Sales, visits Harpreet at his new job at Croma, an electronics store, and returns the contract to Harpreet in return for Rs. 1. He also tells him never to become a businessman again, because he will fail again. However, this is not intended as an insult, but rather as a compliment; he implies that what made Harpreet so successful was his eschewing of 'normal' business practices such as kick-backs, false advertisement, and low wages.
The ending scene is the new Rocket Sales office building where a prospective worker is going in for an interview. It shows the former employees, all partners of the business, and finally closes with Harpreet smiling genially at a desk, showing that eventually honesty and hard work is a sound business decision.
The film released on 11 December 2009 worldwide.
Film critic, Rachel Saltz of New York Times called it a "a smart, focused Bollywood movie" and commended Ranbir Kapoor for "turning in a skillfully understated performance"[5] while Anupama Chopra in her NDTV review gave it 3 out 5 stars.[6]
Nikhat Kazmi in The Times of India gave 3 stars out 5.[7] An The Economic Times review gave it a 4 stars out of 5 and called it, "one of the most rocking films of the year"[8] An Outlook review by Namarata 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."[9] Rajeev Masnd of CNN-IBN gave the movie 3.5 stars out of 5.
2010: Filmfare Awards
2010: IIFA Awards
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