Cast: Gauhar Khan, Shazahn Padamsee and Ranbir Kapoor.
Director: Shimit Amin
Running Time: 2 Hours 30 minutes
Rating: 4 out of 4
Release Date: 11 December 2009
Are you a sales person? Or have you every worked in a sales job. If you haven’t you will still enjoy the movie, but if you did work in sales, the movie is a lot more fun.
Harpreet Singh (HP) believes that he can persuade anyone, anywhere. He also believes in being ethical and giving the customer what they deserve. He knows his career will be in sales because that is the only job where it is your smartness and not your exam scores matter. He attends an interview, gets the job in his very first attempt, and he has already achieved the first step in his dream.
Not really. HP soon realizes that the whole thing is a sham. His job involves bribing customers, promising them the moon but giving them garbage and trying to reach targets which lack any reasoning behind them. Over time, he grows to hate this job because his upbringing never prepared him for this way of life. So, what does he do? The system wants to play games with him, so he decides to play games with the system. This is when the movie becomes a lot more fun and rest of the story unfolds.
Movie has very memorable characters. There is HP, who absolutely believes that, chasing people is more important than chasing numbers. There is this porn loving service engineer, knows the company is doing wrong with the customers but just goes with the flow. A receptionist who lives among wolves, but still retains her angel-ness. An Office boy, who knows how to assemble a computer but has no clue how to use the computer he assembled. Fantastic acting coupled with awesome character development. I love it!
I liked the amount of research put in, to create an authentic sales office. (I can vouch for this because of my own brief stint in sales). Cubicles filled with motivational posters. After sale daaru parties, just one girl in the entire sales team of 20, sky high sales targets and cribbing sales-team. Awesome. The production values are just great. Yashraj Studios, never miss out on this. As a plus, the movie has no songs, which means there are no gaps to the smooth flow of the movie. I will extra points to any movie which decides to move away from songs for the sake of making the movie better.
The movie could be used by any number of b-schools in their sales sessions. The old way of chasing numbers using all kind of pushy methods is not going to work anymore. Chase customers with realistic promises and make sure you keep them. When people believe you, they would not think twice before putting their money in you.
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