Storyline: Director Shiv Rawail’s Alpha is about a serum called Alpha. Once it is injected into a person, he or she develops superhuman capabilities. It is developed under the guidance of Lt. Col. Fateh Singh Lakhawat (Bobby Deol). The serum gets injected into Sita (Alia Bhatt after growing up) while she is still in her mother’s womb. The incident happens under unusual circumstances due to which Fateh adopts her and trains her to become the deadliest Indian soldier.
However, things don’t go according to Fateh’s plan and Sita goes rogue. She comes across RAW (Research and Intelligence Wing) Chief Vikrant Kaul (Anil Kapoor) and his daughter Durga (Sharvari). A conflict takes place between both the parties until Sita is told the biggest secret of her life.
Review: As soon as Sita grows up, she kills a number of innocent government officials as per the orders of Fateh. Plus, she shows no remorse after realizing that she was taken for a ride. Hence, it is not possible to have any sympathy for her, leave alone root for her. In fact, the entire film is full of questionable acts and behaviours by its main characters and writers. Here’s having a look at some of them (SPOILERS alert):
–A serum as deadly as Alpha easily gets a nod from the government and the army. Nothing is said about its side effects. We are later on shown that a person tests the serum on some human beings, who die soon after its administration. But nobody gets to know about it. There are other questionable aspects too about the army, which makes you feel glad that the real army doesn’t work this way.
–The top officials are able to access the serum even for their personal use without anyone noticing it. One character simply opens a fridge-like machine and gets hold of the serum to administer it to his wife as if it is Red Bull or Sting.
–There comes a point where Sita wants to kill a couple of characters. But even when she has a clear chance of doing so, she instead ties them up and makes noodles while adding Chings Schezwan Chutney to it. Soon, she also exclaims, “I am loving this desi Chinese!”
–Bobby Deol’s Fateh Singh Lakhawat keeps on switching between Hindi with Haryanvi accent and normal Hindi throughout the film.
–After the first half, it is established that the film is basically a battle between three good people against one evil. The narrative gets to the final battle between both the parties after a number of silly twists. There are times when a lot of major explosions take place but there are no authorities to, at least, take note of it and the media to report on it.
–Both the Dhurandhar films have had a lot of impact on our minds when it comes to spy action films. But even if you don’t think about the duology, Alpha doesn’t let you do so for it somehow becomes like a reverse of Dhurandhar. The Aditya Dhar film saw an Indian RAW agent infiltrate Pakistan’s criminal and ISI (Inter Service Intelligence) network without anyone realizing. Alpha has a Pakistani ISI agent infiltrating India’s army and nobody gets to know of it even after decades.
Performance wise, Alia Bhatt does well when it comes to action. But her ‘I don’t care’ attitude appears forced. Sharvari and Anil Kapoor come up with sincere acts. Hrithik Roshan is decent in a cameo. But the one who impresses the most is Bobby Deol. But his act is certainly not enough to overshadow the various fallacies of Alpha.
Rating: 1.5 out of 5
Director: Shiv Rawail
Producers: Yash Raj Films
Writers: Uday Chopra, Soumil Shukla, Shridhar Raghavan and Ishita Moitra
Cast: Alia Bhatt, Bobby Deol, Sharvari and Anil Kapoor
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