Fateh movie review: Sonu Sood's debut directorial feels a bit of a fatty liver

FatehA Drama actionDir Sonu SoodCast Sonu Sood Jacqueliene FernandezRating 155Fateh liver It takes jigarliver of another kind to so expensively mount a manicactioner wholly centred on yourself onscreenmdashhaving not just written story screenplay dialogues but directed and produced it as well Thatrsquos Fateh this film Even it feels a bit of a fatty liver if you ask meWhat with a strange fascination for food porn with closeup shots of samosas eggomelette squishing ketchup on a plate or tea into a cup when the villain isnrsquot eating chocolate or momos Itrsquos Sonu ki sweety for his audience after allSonu being the action star whorsquos thus made his directorial debut Where did it start from By which I mean the thought not the movie itselfI suspect the fact that videogame violence is the inthing And who can do it better than a brawny 3BHK with washboard abs Punjabi munda aged 51 from Moga who killed it as the villain Cheddi Singh from Dabangg 2010 after allExcept nobodyrsquos offering him that lead role So he must offer it directly to his audience insteadOnce that profound thought is in place everything else will easily follow In comes Fateh Sonu Unsure about his income thoughGiven that he usually parades in designer wear expensive guns talking shop in a Dubai yachthellip For his current vocation hersquos a supervisor in a dairy farm in Punjabrsquos Moga before he takes on Mogambos obviouslyHe used to be a toplevel secret service agent so khufiyaunderground once that he can cause khaufscare of imaginable levels nowThat this much has been figured of course you would need to surround Sonu with sufficiently wellknown names for this to seem a proper film rather than simply a vanity projectTherefore Jacqueliene Fernandezmdashwhose character I donrsquot know does what for a living except play around on computer screens tracking hackersBut she finds Sonu hot and is too shy to tell Thatrsquos the other Sonu ki sweetybesides the film as I told youThe villain ought to be plainly established too And by that I mean an equally established actor ie Naseeruddin Shah who flits in and out every few minutes in the same costume watching the world move on screens blabbering blah standing next to his secretary in formal wear with supple cleavageThatrsquos the chief villain in a movie where practically everybody but for the hero is a villain of course You gotta pick your favourites thenMinersquos the Chinese bloke Lee To be sure that hersquos indeed Chinese out to screw Indians he always holds a bowl of noodles in his hand chomping on food with his chopsticksDesis like Naseer and actor Vijay Raazrsquos character donrsquot like chopsticks The latter finishes the villain off with this oriental piece of metallic cutlery itself Which is just one of the many ingenious ways the villains die The finest being a piece of wood that goes straight through both ends of a foreheadSince the screenplaymdashthat is all of the above is in full sightmdashenough hence for the hero to go from hideout to hideout just killing off all that he can see amassing a bodycount so huge in this orgy of violence that you forget that all of this started because one girl in the herorsquos pind went missingAnd thatrsquos because she and others in the village had got conned in a loanapp scam Indeed cyber crime is the new uncontainable underworldBut with so many deaths without any consequences must wonder whatrsquos the big deal that there are some dudes losing a lotta moneyAt some point the interval to be precise a warning scrolls on the screen suggesting ldquoBrace yourself yoursquoll need the breakrdquo or some such in chaste EnglishThis is the part by when I suspect the filmmakers had watched Animal 2023 so the corridor sequence with masked men getting walloped one by one follows I know theyrsquove already seen Jurassic Park 1993 so the plastic cup shaking with water inside has already happenedFateh is basically the hero as director shooting himself randomly shoot down hundreds on the goWhat do I look at since wersquove seen it all anyway Well listen to the dialogues for personal popphilosophy then ldquoBahut kam log jaante hai ko woh kam jaante hain Few know that they know little ldquoInsaan samajhta hai apni samajh ke hisaab se Man is limited by his own understandingrdquo Hmmmhellip Like muchFrankly I like Sonu Sood more Not just as an actormdashand hersquos bloody convincing as the brooding brawn alright But more so for what he did during the pandemicmdashferrying if Irsquom not mistaken 75 lakh migrants back to their homesFateh is not his forte Itrsquos tragic for a film industry that more competent writersdirectorsproducers couldnrsquot see sense in platforming the selfmade Sonu through a script that does his genuine stardom fair justiceAnd that poor guy has to do everything on his own Besides spend on the film like itrsquos a global langar even bring down at least one huge international talent for itWhich is the only thing this film will leave behindmdasha popular trivia question Play the track lsquoTo the moonrsquo Ask for its significance Itrsquos composer Hans Zimmerrsquos Bollywood debut In Fateh Waah

Fateh movie review: Sonu Sood's debut directorial feels a bit of a fatty liver

Fateh
A: Drama, action
Dir: Sonu Sood
Cast: Sonu Sood, Jacqueliene Fernandez
Rating: 1.5/5

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Fateh movie review: Sonu Sood's debut directorial feels a bit of a fatty liver

FatehA: Drama, actionDir: Sonu SoodCast: Sonu Sood, Jacqueliene FernandezRating: 1.5/5

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Fateh
A: Drama, action
Dir: Sonu Sood
Cast: Sonu Sood, Jacqueliene Fernandez
Rating: 1.5/5