Cool as a cucumber, Sonu Sood mows down scores of adversaries—one wouldn’t call them opponents as they don’t stand a chance—in the sleekly stirring Fateh.
Sonu Sood’s directorial debut brings out a silent violent side of the director-leading man’s personality. Outwardly, Fateh is a tranquil godfearing peace-loving Gandhian from Moga….
Okay, cancel Gandhian. Fateh doesn’t believe in turning the other cheek: he believes in making his enemies shriek. When a girl, Nimrit, goes missing, Sonu Sood’s Fateh sets off to find the villains. The blood splattered landscape offers interminable bouts of trigger rage.
We are not told much about the hero’s antecedents except that he loves chai, and offers the villains some before bashing the daylights out of them. At the end of one more round of relentless rampaging, our hero Fateh(I like this guy!) mumbles, “You should have accepted my chai offer.”
Tea hee hee.
The wry poker-faced humour acquired from John Wick, sits well on Sonu Sood. He is at once the saviour and the slasher, violence with a purpose, if you please. The rampant action sequences are shot in a tone of imminent cataclysm: these goons have to die, and let’s have some fun with gun… that’s the effectual tone assumed by the this simple film of one man setting right the prevalent scourge of cyber crime.
There is an air of pleasant placidity hovering just beneath the humid violence. Though the carnage tends to careen dangerously towards excess, Sonu Sood’s calm aggression beings an aura of audited acumen to what could easily have turned into a maelstrom of mayhem.
Well-edited and with a keen on the clock, Sonu Sood’s directorial debut knows where to stop. Making his war on cybercrime somewhat spiced up are the villains. Vijay Raaz and Naseeruddin Shah have a blast with their nasty parts. There is a side villain a Chinese who gobbles noodles constantly.
“Be careful with that,” Naseer (who for reasons unknown, is seen in black Hawai chappals all through) warns the gobbler.
In the very next sequence Vijay Raaz stabs the gobbler with his steel chopsticks. Villains as blood brothers in more ways than one.
Oh yes, there is Jacqueline Fernandez who has nothing much to do, and she does it well. Doing nothing is an art especially in a film where the hero is never still. There is always the next bunch of rogues to decimate.
