Awesome review, something tells me I'm definitely gonna love this movie :) That's obvious cause we share the same name :)

@Meetu - 17th (only 6 more days) :). End semester break.

idlebrain.com jeevi saysit runs out of fuel:::This film comes from Jaideep Sahni - the writer of films like Chak De India and Khosla Ka Ghosla. Hence the story is mostly realistic. This story provides a message that people are more important than the numbers (sales targets). Films like these work if the screenplay is interesting and narration is gripping. Shimit Amin who gave two powerful films like Ab Tak Chappan and Chak De India fails to deliver his third success. Rocket Singh fails due to uninteresting screenplay and unrealistic premise. The ragging of Harmeet Singh in his office looks silly and it’s not convincing at all. The concept of operating new outfit from the same office also sounds brainless as it’s easy to get caught. The climax scene in which hero’s ex-boss returns the company should give the audience the feeling of triumph and it doesn’t because the director failed to get audiences emotionally involved with the story by then.
We have seen films like Chak De India and Khosla Ka Ghosla. These films worked because of the gripping screenplay and engaging emotional content. Rocket Singh also offers a similar story and premise. The only difference between earlier films and Rocket Singh is uninteresting screenplay and flat content. Rocket Singh is also narrated at a snail’s pace. On a whole, Rocket Singh runs out of the fuel midway.

Hi Meetu,

Your movie reviews are worth reading but can you also make an overall judgement on ratings. Something like total stars, 4/5, etc.

Your reviews are always included on my site.

Thanks,
Gill from www.top10bollywood.com

Meetu,

It was a pleasant surprise to see someone from India reference Aaron Sorkin. Are reruns on TWW and Sports Night still broadcasted?

I definitely have to see this film now.

similar to "Office space"(1999)

@Ravish Thank you! Do let us know what you thought of the film.

@Gill 4/5 and 5/5 makes it a %age. Where as a ranking that says "Must Watch" You know what to do. Doesn't matter how many marks the film gets. And I guess this is my way of being "different"

@JJ I used to follow both those series when I lived in the US. West Wing was playing on one of the channels here, but haven't seen Sports Night. I usually grab DVDs from my DVD rental place. He has all the released West Wing seasons.

@Sudhir Yeah its unrealistic but you want to believe it can happen int he "Lage Raho Munnabhai" sort of a way. I loved the fact that the romance was just a very-very side thing. Awesome decisions these were! Good to see you here again!

Let us be very clear, this movie would never have got made if it was not for the team that wrote and directed it. It is a feel good movie and for a feel good movie, it has surprisingly very few emotional resonances. It is also in that sense not realistic, since it does not show the sweat and grime of a salesman in Mumbai. The office is too sanitised, the colleagues all trying too hard to be bad, and the hero is ever fresh and only has to run around on a scooty. The screen play is weak primarily because it tries to deliver a simplistic message, and the business world is definitely not simplistic. There are really no great conflicts happening here, in the characters' minds, since everything is laid out so simplistically and in a stereotypical fashion, the cynical predatory boss, the honest but corrupted manager, the idealistic young man etc. The writer does not seem to have grasped the complexities of a corporate office, or otherwise he is not interested in them. The performances are decent, nothing to go ga ga over.
The music tries to compensate for the lack of emotional depth and that irritates at times. The dialogues barring a few lines have absolutely no wit or sparkle and most of the dialogues sound artificial since they seem to have been written to get the message across very clearly.
All in all a completely bland film, another bit of fluff.

Hi
This is my first visit to your blog. Outstanding work. Im here because I spotted this as a winner on indiblogger. I a quite skeptical about movie review blogs...one because they are too many of them. And also they tend to use it as a medium to vent out their frustrations...over cynical and stuff like that. You have managed to keep it personal and at the same time neutral. But this was refreshingly different. And I agree with everything you've written about rocket....it was a brilliant watch.
keep it up...you are not just another member in the audience for sure.

A good film is very difficult to work with. In my opinion a good film is one that either reasonates emotionally with the audience or makes the audience think or both. This film does not have any of that. It is just an average joe film, there is nothing that you feel connected about either to the characters or to the film as a whole. Eg Chak De with its patriotism, was a completely different ball game, not that I subscribe to it, but yes, it did make for some great emotional moments.
And what I meant was that since it was the team of Sahni and Amin, a major studio funded it, otherwise the script would have been thrown out on its butt. Possibly the script was grittier and the studio house being what it is eliminated that grittiness. One never knows.

Congratulations on ur win at indibloggies..

Yep, just watched it today. Sadly, the theater was almost empty. :(
I thoroughly enjoyed the movie though. Would definitely love more movies like this - one story, no digressions. A simple story told in a simple yet effective manner.

Good to know that Yashraj Films is actually awake, and not sleeping as it appears to be.

The movie completely took me by surprise, and was not any thing at all that I expected it to be. It is a clean, neat, direct approach, and its good to see..

I some how missed Konkana Sen Sharma in this movie. Dont know which role she would have played, there isnt one, I can think of. But suddenly I realise that she has reached that kind of stature...

Turban was so authentic. Good to see. Ranbir sure gives promise.

Good movie... surely...

i liked the movie for it's being light and natural.