Selling a dream: Rocket Singh charges up youth

CHANDIGARH: It is not everyday that Harpreet Singh gets the full glare of stardom for himself and his ilk. But on Friday, as Rocket Singh becomes a must watch film in the weekend itinerary, our very own Harpreet is glowing.

His reel life avatar, essayed by Ranbir Kapoor who plays the salesman named Harpreet Singh in the film, echoes the sentiments of a clique of turbaned salesmen. And whether it is in the shrewdness of Rocket Singh, his "natural persuasive charm", or his less than average grades that lead him to being a sales guy, this land of many Rocket Singhs have found a defining moment for their career. And life.

Harpreet, who is a young Sikh into sales, is ecstatic with Rocket Singh. He cracks up, "I swear I can identify with the glib Harpreet, aka Ranbir Kapoor in the film. His stories, dreams, though vain, are so believable for us." What brings greater cheer to these youth in the field is the fact that Ranbir is perhaps the first Sikh in Bollywood who portrays a turbaned character who is suave. "So far, the hero or any character with a turban is the comic element in the plot. He is never depicted as someone with as much panache as the other clean shaven heroes who are macho, fly machines and save the girls from the goons," says Satwinder Singh, a sales person in a pharmaceutical company.

Rattanbir Singh, a salesman with a radio channel can pinpoint the "finer nuances" of Rocket Singh that he also calls his own. "The film shows that Ranbir barely manages to scrape through his graduation with below average marks hence he decides to get into the sales line. Well, that's true in real life too," he laughs.

But the real fondness for Rocket comes from his street smartness, a trait most of our real life Sikhs have been waiting for. Preet Arjun Singh, who works in the marketing division of an IT company, says Ranbir's character is etched very close to real life and depicts the strife that a sales job brings.

"Sikhs were the original sales persons because of their diligence and capability to think innovatively. A maxim in our culture says - if you want to sell something, give it to a Punjabi," adds Jagdish Singh, another salesman.

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