슬롯사이트˜Fateh슬롯사이트� Movie Review: Sood Sood슬롯사이트™s Directorial Debut Is a Feeble Mocktail of 슬롯사이트˜John Wick슬롯사이트� and 슬롯사이트˜The Beekeeper슬롯사이트� (LatestLY Exclusive)

Fateh Movie Review:슬롯 머신 사이트 추천With his directorial debut Fateh, Sonu Sood wears his Hollywood influences on his sleeve. The film feels like a love child of John Wick and The Beekeeper - with maybe a few distant cousins thrown in, even within Bollywood. A hallway fight scene, for instance, screams ANIMAL! Sood has borrowed Keanu Reeves슬롯사이트� fighting style for the brutal action scenes, while the plot channels Jason Statham슬롯사이트™s action thriller. Replace bees with cows, phishing scams with fake loan apps, sprinkle in a pinch of Man on Fire and a bucketload of melodrama, and voilà - you슬롯사이트™ve got the screenplay for Fateh. Unfortunately, there슬롯사이트™s one crucial element Sood forgot to borrow: panache.슬롯 머신 사이트 추천Sonu Sood Prays at Shirdi Temple Ahead of 슬롯사이트˜Fateh슬롯사이트� Film Release, Shares Video on Social Media; Says 슬롯사이트˜Sabki Fateh Ho슬롯사이트� 슬롯사이트� WATCH.

The movie opens with Fateh Singh (Sonu Sood) cosplaying as either John Wick or Agent 47 - take your pick - while a score plays that sounds suspiciously like someone being strangled. (And yes, it plays throughout the film.) Fateh then goes all 슬롯사이트œone-man army슬롯사이트� against a gang of baddies in their hideout. After a generous amount of stabbing, shooting, and body-dropping, he슬롯사이트™s taken out by a blast. Naturally, this triggers a voiceover where he reflects on how he got here. Time for the first flashback.

We rewind to a month earlier in a quaint Punjabi village, where Fateh runs a dairy farm. He has no family but takes good care of his employees - so much so that he sneaks money into their lockers instead of, you know, giving them a raise. When one employee falls victim to a fake loan app and tragically dies, Fateh heads to Delhi to investigate, spurred on by the mysterious disappearance of a neighbouring girl who introduced the app to the village. Enter Khushi (Jacqueline Fernandez), an ethical hacker who helps Fateh uncover a criminal syndicate run by Raza (Naseeruddin Shah). Raza operates out of a CGI-drenched lair surrounded by screens straight out of Krrish, a detail that we wished Naseeruddin Shah probably remembered before signing to go through the same motions here. There's also another main villain - Satyaprakash (Vijay Raaz), the Ronan to Shah슬롯사이트™s Thanos.

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Of course, Fateh isn슬롯사이트™t just a dairy farmer. Turns out, he슬롯사이트™s a former agent of some nondescript agency. Cue flashback within a flashback to show a glimpse of what he can actually do.

Spoiler alert: Fateh doesn슬롯사이트™t actually die from that earlier blast. He gets up, dusts himself off, and kills many more people. If you think that슬롯사이트™s a spoiler, you probably need to watch more movies.

'Fateh' Movie Review - Bloody But Not Saucy Enough!

Violent action films are all the rage right now. Animal smashed box office records in 2023, Kill became an international sensation in 2024, and even the lacklustre Pushpa 2 was a financial juggernaut. Marco is holding its own despite one traumatising sequence, and we슬롯사이트™re mere weeks away from Himesh Reshammiya slicing a goon in half in Badass Ravikumar. It슬롯사이트™s no surprise that Sonu Sood wanted to cash in on the trend.

To his credit, the action in Fateh does show effort, even if it feels derivative. The problem lies with the director, who - unfortunately for Sood - is himself. For a film like Fateh to succeed, it either needed a megastar whose charisma could gloss over the flaws (Pushpa 2, anyone?) or slick editing, gripping cinematography, and well-choreographed action (Kill is a prime example). Fateh, sadly, has neither.

The lighting is flat, and the dull colour grading makes the film look like it슬롯사이트™s stuck in 2010. The editing is choppy, especially during fight scenes, and the shaky camerawork ensures you can barely follow the action. The brutal and violent climactic fight sequence where Fateh goes 'Raid' on the villain슬롯사이트™s hideout - a sequence meant to leave you breathless - feels more like a poorly staged rehearsal. Somehow, Indian cinema has managed to make hallway fight scenes boring in just two years.

Earlier in the film, a chase sequence through a crowded market suffers from the same issues. Fateh and Khushi are pursued by police and a hulking goon, only to inexplicably escape after some generic running and shoving. The film doesn슬롯사이트™t bother explaining how they got away.

'Fateh' Movie Review - Dumb Characters

The characters in Fateh are ill-defined and, let슬롯사이트™s face it, mostly dumb. At one point, a villain instructs his henchmen to follow Fateh, but instead, they try to kill him in his hotel room. Later, Khushi takes Fateh to her house, assuring him it슬롯사이트™s 슬롯사이트œsafe.슬롯사이트� Just two scenes later, the same villain sends another batch of henchmen to her house to kill them both. The irony is amusing because, before Fateh became a thorn in their side, the villains were desperately searching for Khushi. Now, all of a sudden, they know exactly where she is.

A corrupt cop reveals his dark side to Fateh to scare him off. Why? No clue. There was no need for him to take that risk and put his life in danger when one of the two villains could have done the same job. Even the main villains are daft. After Fateh shows his calibre to a villain by barging슬롯 머신 사이트 추천into his house and killing all his bodyguards, and then - plot twist - the villain destroys the one thing that could have saved him from Fateh. Genius moves all around.슬롯 머신 사이트 추천슬롯사이트˜Fateh슬롯사이트�: Not Ranbir Kapoor슬롯사이트™s 슬롯사이트˜Ramayana슬롯사이트�, Hans Zimmer Makes His Bollywood 슬롯사이트˜Debut슬롯사이트� With Sonu Sood슬롯사이트™s Movie With a Surprise Twist!

Also, can someone explain why the baddies are so intent on keeping some random village girl in Punjab alive? Apart from giving the story an excuse to send the hero after them, there seems to be no logical reason. Meanwhile, Fateh keeps delivering impassioned lectures on the dangers of online scams. He even tells Khushi he carries a diary because it can슬롯사이트™t be hacked. Admirable logic, except he슬롯사이트™s also lugging around a smartphone and a tablet.

The dialogues aim for a massy vibe but often fall flat or leave you scratching your head. Take this gem from Fateh Singh: 슬롯사이트�Pehle, satyaprakash ke ghar chai piyunga aur dusra, woh bhi pehle hi hai.슬롯사이트� If someone could explain what this means before the year ends, I슬롯사이트™d be eternally grateful. The movie also jumps locations on a whim, from Delhi to Punjab to Delhi to Dubai to San Fransisco to back to Delhi,슬롯 머신 사이트 추천just so Sonu Sood can make cool poses in various locales.

Sonu Sood, the director, does deserve credit for one thing: convincing actors like Naseeruddin Shah, Vijay Raaz, and Dibyendu Bhattacharya to show up슬롯 머신 사이트 추천and phone their way through some badly written lines.

And what about Sonu Sood, the actor? Well, he does a decent job channelling his inner John Wick. Despite the frantic editing and shaky camerawork, he manages to look reasonably convincing when reloading a shotgun or stabbing a man repeatedly with a pen. But when he tries to bring swag and charisma to the role, I couldn슬롯사이트™t help but agree with a side-villain슬롯사이트™s cutting remark: 슬롯사이트�Sab 6-footiye Amitabh Bachchan nahi hote!슬롯사이트� Sorry, bro.

'Fateh' Movie Review - Final Thoughts

Fateh is a missed opportunity for Sonu Sood to reinvent himself as an actor or for us to take him seriously as an action star. Sood's earnestness in the fight scenes is commendable, but his overreach as a first-time director is glaring in several places. For all its stabs at gritty action, Fateh lacks the finesse, coherence, and adrenaline-pumping thrill needed to truly make its mark. Instead, it limps along, weighed down by its patchy execution and the nagging feeling that we've seen it all before - and done far better.

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