Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year

9/19/2026

**Film: Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year** **Director:** Shimit Amin **Release date:** 11 December 2009 (UK) **Screenplay:** Jaideep Sahni **Cast:** It stars Ranbir Kapoor in the title role, with D. Santosh, Gauahar Khan, Naveen Kaushik, Prem Chopra, Manish Chaudhari, and debutante Shazahn Padamsee in supporting roles. **Review by Dr Usman Latif Khawaja** If Madoff was not a mal-salubrious salesman who was extremely corrupt to the core, then Shimit Amin is the very antithesis or alter ego of that entity, as he makes a fantasy mixing religion, corporate corruption, and the dream to cure a corrupt world in this limpid comedy, which is a sad reminder of the golden period when Basu Chatterjee, Hrishikesh Mukherjee, and Gulzar made comic classics like *Naram Garam*, *Gol Maa