Rocket Singh

I am trying to deconstruct Rocket Singh and I must concede I find it a bit difficult to understand, just can’t figure out the theme. Was it having fewer clients and maintaining a good relationship with them(the movie doesn’t directly tell us the fewer clients part but it is very much implied in the business model chosen by them), was it about the zeal of a new entrant (and the propensity to bite more than one can chew – again not depicted directly in the movie but pretty much implied), was it revenge – in which case the plot is unduly biased against the superboss whereas the boss was equally guilty or was it about humanizing the sales process (the protagonist’s confession on how he doesn’t understand numbers but what makes the salesperson, the customer and his girlfriend happy). I really don’t know, nevertheless there are certain things I like about the movie:

1. The protagonist thinks. That the man applies thought and tries to bring about a change – for better or worse we don’t know – is enough for the movie to maintain a certain degree of interest level.
2. Characterization is consistent and convincing. I did not find any half baked characters except probably the childlike girl friend who is in all fairness not unnecessary.
3. The clandestine operations of Rocket sales corp.

But at some level the movie disappoints by focusing on a rather rare and irrelevant issue of corruption in corporate world. Wish they had just stuck to the revenge + tension of operating a company from within a company plot. I would rather have a sinister protagonist in a successful caper than a moralizing one caught in the middle of an interesting deceit.