{"id":5830,"date":"2016-04-23T09:45:58","date_gmt":"2016-04-23T04:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=5830"},"modified":"2026-07-17T21:52:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T16:22:55","slug":"ranbir-kapoor-10-years-rocket-singh-middle-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=5830","title":{"rendered":"How Ranbir Kapoor\u2019s Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year Became the Conscience of a Generation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<span class=\"dropcap\">T<\/span>en years ago, there were two carefree and directionless college graduates in Hindi cinema. One of them was Sidharth Mehra, a Bombay slacker who prefered building <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/humour\/abs-beach-body-gym-fitness\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">daydreams<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> instead of realising them, epitomising the ultimate cliche of a wealthy brat. Sid failed his final college exams, made a routine out of clashing with his father, and mined this dependence on generational conflict \u2013 derived in part from the stubbornness of Indian parenting \u2013 to ultimately discover his passion. But if Sidharth Mehra got to wake up as Sid, Harpreet Singh Bedi never had the luxury to fall asleep in the first place.\n\nLike Sid, Harpreet\u2019s academic bent wasn\u2019t remarkable. Barely passing with 39 per cent in his BCom exams made it obvious that he didn\u2019t have the aptitude for an MBA degree, either. Harpreet was also lost in the same ways as Sid: He wasn\u2019t particularly ambitious and resisted following convention blindly. And both of them rebelled against what society expected out of them. Sid found himself as a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/humour\/a-crazy-rich-indian-bachelorette\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">photographer<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and Harpeet turned into an entrepreneur. Yet, despite their similarities, the language of Harpreet and Sid\u2019s rebellion couldn\u2019t be any more different.\n\nUnlike Sid, Harpreet belonged to a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/social-commentary\/middle-class-mentality-indian-families\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">middle-class<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> family, which meant that his coming-of-age story was shackled by the practicality of responsibilities. It was, to put it simply, not cinematic enough. For him, fending for himself, even if it was through a nine-to-five job, was a necessity. So even as Sid went about making a spectacle out of rebellion in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/humour\/mumbai-rains-waterlogging-india-meteorological-department\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wake Up Sid<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Harpreet was obligated to be resourceful and look inward \u2013 his rebellion occurred undercover, devoid of any grand theatrics in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. That both Sid and Harpreet were essayed by Ranbir Kapoor, the actor who keeps doubling up as the perennial poster boy for going against the tide, made it all the more poetic.\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1576156998.jpg\" alt=\"rocket_singh\" width=\"611\" height=\"407\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-57174\" \/>\n<figcaption>\n<p>In <em>Rocket Singh&#8230;<\/em>, after Harpreet (Kapoor) takes up a job at a computer firm as a sales agent, he ends up getting a crash course in hypocrisy.<\/p>\n<p>Yash Raj Films<\/p>\n<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\nIn a way, Shimit Amin\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/upstarts-review-netflix-india-a-start-up-drama-that-fails-to-fully-take-off\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> began exactly where Ayan Mukherji\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wake Up Sid <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ended. It\u2019s perhaps why Sid came-of-age but Harpeet grew up, in the truest sense of the word. The stark contrast in the approach to the same underdog story is at the heart of the kind of acclaim both these films eventually garnered. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wake Up Sid<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was an instant commercial success, unanimously lauded for being a movie that infused passion in profession and gave a face to youthful listlessness. In comparison, the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a film that probed whether ambition came with a personal responsibility, swiftly flew under the radar despite it being the riskier outing of the two.\n\nFor one, the film \u2013 a rewarding upshot of the reunion of Amin and Jaideep Sahni (the duo had previously collaborated on <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/chak-de-india-hockey-shah-rukh-khan-movie\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chak De! India<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) \u2013 was one of the rare Bollywood outings that remained unconcerned about becoming box-office friendly. It\u2019s an especially miraculous feat given that back then, movies weren\u2019t rewarded for withstanding the temptations of mainstream cinema like they are today. In a way, a large part of the credit might lie with Yash Raj Films, Bollywood\u2019s most influential production house, reputed for both, lavishly budgeted A-list-led cinema and for needlessly dialing up the theatrics of its offerings. Although, Yash Raj is widely commended for backing <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/bollywood\/dum-laga-ke-haisha-ayushmann-khuranna-bhumi-pednekar\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dum Laga Ke Haisha<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in 2015 which went against these norms, not demanding Amin to compromise on his vision for <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rocket Singh&#8230; <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">should easily rank higher in its list of achievements.\n\nIn the film, after Harpreet (Kapoor) takes up a job at a computer firm as a sales agent, he ends up getting a crash course in hypocrisy. His bosses set impossible targets for the team and his colleagues silently adhere to this unreasonableness, reinforcing the corrupt culture of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/humour\/employees-resource-manager-corporate-culture\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">corporate slavery<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> instead of fighting it. The trigger for Harpreet\u2019s awakening comes when he is punished with a demotion for filing a complaint against a client who demanded a bribe. Although, Amin and Sahni make a big deal out of this moment, Harpreet\u2019s rebellion happens almost unannounced \u2013 neither is it set to a definitive background score nor is it accompanied by long monologues. That\u2019s because the film\u2019s intentions stretched beyond the beats of the usual David vs Goliath template. Sahni\u2019s screenplay was bothered less about the loser as it was fixated on questioning his limits. What the film remained invested in was carving out the distinction between what makes a good employee and who is really, the right employee.\n\nTo that end, long before Hindi cinema made a template out of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/love-and-sex\/how-the-middle-class-makes-love\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">middle-class<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rocket Singh&#8230;<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> offered a distinctive snapshot of the challenges of middle-class employment. It did so without falling prey to any of the cliches paraded by most Hindi films of today: Amin strayed away from glamourising the constraints of an Indian workplace \u2013 an office-party sequence, for instance, is delightfully spare with employees drinking out of plastic cups and songs being played on a computer. He didn\u2019t reduce the film\u2019s characters to caricatures either: a female receptionist isn\u2019t exploited for easy comic relief and an employee watching porn on company time isn\u2019t afforded a distasteful spin. In a way, it\u2019s admirable how Amin made the inherent restraint work in his favour, given that much of the film unfolded in unadorned <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/humour\/why-our-parents-dont-get-our-work-culture\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">office<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> spaces and relied on making moments out of two people conversing on screen.\n\n<blockquote class=\"quote--center\"><p>Long before Hindi cinema made a template out of the middle-class, <em>Rocket Singh&#8230;<\/em> offered a distinctive snapshot of the challenges of middle-class employment.}<\/p><\/blockquote> \n\nEven then, the film\u2019s bigger experiment was in having a Sikh hero whose religion was incidental to the plot. The scenes that have Harpreet tuck in his turban in front of the mirror, comb his beard, or even adjust his kada before dipping his hand into a bucket of clothes, don\u2019t exist because they need to serve a purpose. They are there because these are actions that are as natural to his existence as breathing. It\u2019s this level of compassion which makes <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rocket Singh <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that rare Hindi film that goes all the way in seeing a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/people\/fixo-kadha-prasad-sikhism-turban-gurdwara\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sikh<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> hero as an Everyman.\n\nIt is entirely the film\u2019s uncompromising quality\u2013 barring Kapoor, the cast comprises character actors and newcomers \u2013 which made Amin\u2019s refusal to cast idealism as a professional liability so compelling. That might not have been the case, had the film been mandated to perk up its proceedings with an item song or slapstick humour. Instead, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rocket Singh<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8230; takes its time, managing to strike the delicate balance of eking comedy out of youthful naivety as well as making a case for it. At the same time, it is also a terrific indictment of workplace <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/gender\/manik-katyal-sexual-harassment-at-the-workplace-emaho-magazine-india\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">oppression<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that outlines it, with a comical clarity, as a self-defeating exercise.\n\nYet, it would have been near impossible for the film to sell any of its grand ideas, had it not been for a dependably solid lead turn. Although, the actor already had two successful releases that year (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ajab Prem Ki Gazab Kahani, Wake Up Sid<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">), it is his towering performance in<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Rocket Singh&#8230; <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that made the case for his versatility. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/ranbir-kapoor-birthday-actor-bollywood\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kapoor<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, otherwise prone to indulgence, stripped himself off the baggage and delivered a self-aware, generous performance. It\u2019s in part, due to him that Amin succeeded in turning Harpreet as a shorthand for the gentle helplessness that drives middle-class ingenuity. It is both the film\u2019s biggest selling point and its triumph.\n\nIn that sense, if <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wake Up Sid<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> will be remembered as giving a voice to a generation back in 2009, then today, 10 years later, it\u2019s hard to forget that <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is the unflinching conscience of that same generation. Sid might have had the privilege of being a slacker but it is Harpreet who knows that finding your passion is afterall, insignificant if you don\u2019t know your way around its worth.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long before Hindi cinema made an aesthetic out of the middle-class, Shimit Amin&#8217;s criminally underrated Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year, offered a distinctive snapshot of the challenges of middle-class employment, carving with a comical clarity that the good employee is not always the right 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