Starring: Vijay, Pooja Hegde, Selvaraghavan, Yogi Babu, Redin Kingsley, Bjorn Surrao, VTV Ganesh, Aparna Das, Shine Tom Chacko, Liliput Faruqui, Ankur Ajit Vikal & Others
Director: Nelson Dilipkumar
Producers: Sun Pictures
Music Director: Anirudh Ravichander
Cinematography: Manoj Paramahamsa
Editor: R. Nirmal
Release Date : April 13,2022
Vijay’s films have been doing well in Telugu and his market has also grown in the last year or so. He has come up with a new film called Beast which has also had a great release in Telugu states. Read our review to find out if the film has any juice in it or not.
Plot
The film is about a RAW agent played by Vijay. After a failed mission, he joins as a security agent in a famous mall in Chennai. But to his shock, the terrorists attack the mall and hostage the civilains. The Indian government comes forward and after knowing that Vijay is in the mall asks him to protect the civilians. How Vijay turns into a Beast and saves everyone is the basic plot of Beast.
Performances
Vijay is the only actor who makes some sense in the film. Even when he does the over the top action, he looks solid and means business. His style, dialogue delivery and action parts are good. Pooja Hegde plays a junior artist in the film and has nothing to do but stay behind as an extra.
Yogi Babu is completely wasted in his role. VTV Ganesh makes sure that he generates some comedy. The villain played and the man who played the role of home minister are a big joke in the film. Selva Raghavan is a cop in TN police and the manner in which he goes about his role is silly.
What’s Good
Vijay’s style and attitude
Vijay’s dances
What’s bad
Stale Story
Silly narration
Horrible star cast
Logicless scenes
Soulless scenes
Analysis
Beast is a hostage drama that has a stale idea to start off with. A mall is hijacked by the terrorists and the state government cannot do anything about it. There are so many CCTV cameras in the mall and the villains come in easily and start creating havoc. There are so many such errors in Beast.
The action blocks have been designed to suit Vijay’s image and he does a sincere job and will please his fans. But the fans will surely not forgive director Nelson for making such a silly film. There is absolutely no seriousness in the film as multiple things go on their own and no one can do anything about it.
One aspect where Beast scores is the music. There are two songs which Anirudh has composed and they are superb. The film looks and has stylized action that has been created in a good mood.
But in all this, there is no seriousness in the film as people keep dying and the director ignores this aspect and keeps joking about the situation through the characters of VTV Ganesh. There is no proper screenplay and the climax part looks like a mere video game to say the least.
Beast had so much riding on it and some good stunts and a few emotions would have made the fans happy. But all this does not happen and Nelson takes the audience for a ride. As KGF 2 is coming out tomorrow, Beast will be washed away.
Bottom Line – Obnoxious and silly
