Rocket Singh Salesman of the year...

Rocket Singh Salesman of the year….

I recently saw Rocket Singh, Salesman of the year…and was quite surprised to see the functoning of the Sales Dept.  It just appeared as a fictional creation, untill I was told my friends and collegues in Sales that the world shown was just the tip of the iceberg!  Coming from an RND background, where interaction with the outside world is almost zilch , I am still finding the movie a little far fetched….For those of you who are yet to see the movie…here is a brief synopsis of the movie…

The movie begins with this guy “Harpreet Singh” (aka Ranbir kapoor), a below average student (the 35-38% types!) who is drawn to the world of Sales.  In his opinion Sales is the most glamorous profession to be in and blessed with the gift of the gab he thinks he’s going to make it big.  He attends his first interview with a Indegenous Computer Assembly company and almost does not make it till the MD of the company walks in while he giving a sales demo (selling  pencil to the Senoir Manger)…mighty impressed with his talent of selling a Rs2/- pencil as a 25 lakh commodity! He gets the job….

Then one would think the movie would be apna typical Bolywood masala, rags to riches story…but is not... They show a little more reality.  Apna hero goes for his first solo sales call, where the client (GM of the company) asks him for a 10% cut, shocked Harpreet Singh walks out and in the suggestion box that he sees outside, writes out an official complain in his company letterhead against the GM.  On revealling this to his senoirs at work, he gets the flak…he is now grounded, stuck to his seat near the loo n  to top it all- his peers keep aiming paper rockets at him!  Next series of events happen, and apna hero hits on the idea of launching his own company within his existing firm…a computer assembly unit….slowly he takes in the sales engineer to assemble his computers, the receptionist cum secretary to be his office manager and the chai wala (who can assemble a comp even in his sleep) as patners of his company –“Rocket Sales Corporation”…..their company slowly begins to grow under the nose of the unsuspecting MD who has no clue as to why his sales figurs are tipping…they lastly take in the senior sales  manager as their last partner…Next after a series of events the MD figures out who is behind the other company and threatens legal action if they don’t sell it to him for ‘free’….Apna hero does just that to bail out all his partners….The MD mighty thrilled with his new conquest...

The next couple of scenes go on to show how the sales guys of the now “ merged” Rocket  Sales Corp are unable to handle the high expectations and standards of the earlier Rocket Singh Sales …the sales figures tip and the once rocking Rocet Sales Corp becomes a liability instead of asset….and finally the Climax comes  in form of the MD coming down to Apna Harpreet  Singh giving him big “gyan’ and finally accepting his own defeat by handing him back his company….the and ‘Then They Lived Happily for Everafter” comes in form of all the parteners reuniting and doing what they all do best ….”revive Rocket Sales Corp….