A former RAW officer, who is among the hostages in a mall taken over by terrorists, has to foil their plans and prevent the government from releasing a dreaded terrorist, who he had helped put in prison at great personal cost.
- Released: 2022-04-12
- Runtime: 162 minutes
- Genre: Action, Comedy, Thrillers
- Stars: Vijay, Pooja Hegde, Selvaraghavan, Yogi Babu, Redin Kingsley, VTV Ganesh, Shine Tom Chacko, Ankur Vikal, Sujatha Babu Ramesh, Anirudh Ravichander, Aparna Das, Bjorn Surrao, Lilliput, Sathish Krishnan, Nelson Dilipkumar, Sunil Reddy, Shaji Chen, Prudhviraj, Sunil Reddy, Shiva Aravind, Subbalakshmi, Pawan Chopra, Cell Murugan, Jani Master
- Director: Nelson Dilipkumar
Comments
- mkumarpat - 26 December 2023
Crinage action with good storyline acted by Vijay
Nelson's last film, "Doctor", was truly a new attempt in the action-comedy genre for the Tamil audience. Yes, it had those avoidable spoofs that were planted to please the hardcore masses, which disturbed the seriousness of the storyline, but otherwise, it made for a good watchable flick. With Beast, he goes completely massy with superstar Vijay, only to spoil the basic, simple rules of filmmaking. On the other hand, Vijay is also coming from an average flick, "Master", but it was saved by the director Lokesh Kanagaraj. Beast gives him a full-scale, massy avatar but not style and logic. If you remember watching Bruce Willis starrer "Die Hard" (1988), or the recent Hindi adaptation of it, "Sanak" (2021), then I don't think the story of Beast has anything new for you, except the action and hardcore patriotism. Just imagine those two films with regional comedy flavours, and the closest possible outcome is Beast.
The film is about a talented and patriotic RAW agent, Veer Raghavan, who quits his job after one sad and unwanted incident. Even after quitting RAW, the trauma stays with him as he tries to cure it with the help of a psychiatrist. With the help of his girlfriend, Preeti (Pooja Hegde), he gets a job in a company and visits a shopping mall, which eventually gets hijacked by terrorists. Veer decides to save the hostages for the sake of mental peace, which has got something to do with that old trauma. What challenges he has to face during the battle and how he handles terrorists and politicians to complete the mission is all that forms the rest of the narrative.
The screenplay here is very problematic. You have no clue about the number of terrorists in there, as Veer finishes them off easily and yet has many more left. Veer's strategies are sometimes successful, while others fail, but he has counter-strategies for every terrorist move. There are a lot of surprises in store, and some are really interesting, but I just can't spoil them here. What brings Beast down is the poor writing and illogical screenplay. The film is hampered by unnecessary comedy because it ruins the importance of a damn serious event like the hijack. You can't have any explanation for hostages having fun and cracking jokes during the hijack. The romance and jealousy parts were too cheesy to accept. Come on, you are the hostages under the attack of dangerous terrorists, so please show some little amount of fear.
Veer Raghavan is a tailor-made role for Thalapathy. - tmuralicm - 4 December 2022
super
Highlight movie. Watchable. Good for army soldiers.these movie have brilliant fight action movie. THALAPATHY VIJAY style is super for girls he attract very much. The guns he was holding style is super and he is the man of masses the songs are very good in the movie it is also perfect dance for the song and the song is so good by the anirudh ravichander inspirational movie for the first time I see the THALAPATHY VIJAY SIR like this don't miss the movie watch it in NETFLIX in telugu,Tamil, Malayalam, Hindi, kannada and it also watch in SUNXT in Telugu and Tamil it satellite partener is sun TV so please watch it. - billionairenoeleneyoung - 14 August 2022
Beast
What a good movie. Beast was quite a positively refreshing and teeth-biting thriller which was a plus in recent times, as opposed to all the demonic little thrillers floating around. I saw techniques that one could use when faced with 'lion trouble'. For instance, allowing lions to attack your attacker in their territory, staying behind closed bar doors and remaining in a vehicle, as much as possible. A special thank you goes out to all producers, writer, actors especially Mr. Elba. - Li_85 - 14 July 2022
I'm baffled why many people hated this. Its awesome
Wow. I've noticed many people have given this a poor rating BUT for me this was Very entertaining. Something different. Vijay is absolutely awesome. I've now seen my 6th vijay film and I've become a fan ever since I saw Theri. I want to see more of Vijay. I'm new to South movies but I'm fed up of bollywood who have been poor the last decade.
