Fateh Review: Sonu battles against logic while Jacqueline tests our patience

Three years after his last Hindi film was released Sonu Sood decided to come up with a film named Fateh and we wonder why The movie revolves around a guy named Fateh of course played by Sonu Sood who works for an intelligence agency nobody knows about or cares to explainYears after Fateh has completed his last mission for the country he decides to go back to his old self to save a girl Nimrat his neighbour who has been trapped in the web of people running online frauds Now to save Nimrat Fateh must uncover the truth and to help him in this mission we have Khushi played by Jacqueline FernandezWhat went wrongThis approximately 2hourlong film starts with an action sequence where Fateh is killing hundreds of people and nobody is able to touch him The movie then goes back in time to show what led Fateh to reach this stage and why he is so angry and frustrated Well Fatehs fight is against the people behind this dark world of online fraud and on his radar are the bosses played by Vijay Raaz and Naseeruddin ShahBefore talking about their characters and performances a genuine question arises what did their paycheck look like What made actors of their caliber sign a film like this No doubt they performed their scenes nicely but the dialoguesmdashwhat even If you ask a student from 8th grade to write dialogues and make sure they rhyme they will look likeAgli baar kirdaar imaandaar rakhna janazaa shaandaar niklegaFateh ki fateh ka samay aa gaya hainJacqueline Fernandez in the film was a hackermdashor we should rather call her Dora the Explorermdashwho is trying to find something and always misses it until Fateh is free enough to save her from the wrath of the bad guys Time and again the VFX are shoved into your face to remind you that it is an Arated film because of its violence There comes a point when you want to question the makers why is everybody killing everybody for honestly no reason at allThe movie addresses quite a few important and harsh realities like online fraud online killings and deep fake videos but in an attempt to cater to several battles we often lose the warIf Sandeep Reddy Vanga ever makes a nonmisogynistic film on a low budget it will look exactly like Sonu Soods Fateh In one scene hundreds of masked men are running toward the hero and no one is able to even touch him At that exact point you wish to stand up and sing Arjan Vailly at the top of your voiceAbout CGI VFX and Background scoreComing to the background music CGI and VFX of the film it looked like the makers decided to give internships to newcomers and they tried their best to make the CGI look better but it didnrsquot Every second scene of the film has a singer singing a song with the word Fateh in it and every time the bass and the wavelength have been changed to make it look more effectiveThe CGI of the movie is so bad that you can actually point out when they have used a hologram and how much colour was used to show blood During one of the scenes Naseeruddin Shah makes a deep fake video and changes his face with Sonus for which the police start chasing Sonu and in the next scene everyone has forgotten about it One scene shows men with bulletproof jackets dying because of gunfire How does this make senseWell if you think Fateh is just a 2hour story then you are highly mistaken because it ends with a cliffhanger hinting at a second partFinal VerdictSometimes itrsquos good to break your reallife image of a messiah for films to show the audience the versatility you have in you otherwise the film comes across as pointless and boring as this one Another more important point is to decide the agenda before writing the script because when you decide to put everything on one plate it often looks messy rather than tempting