In his preceding films, Kolamaavu Kokila and Doctor, director Nelson mined humour out of conditions that hardly ever might have stumble upon as humorous on paper. In Beast, too, he's taking a backdrop this is serious - a hostage situation - and attempts to make it humorous. But this time, he's a ways from successful. In fact, the movie slightly offers the laughs withinside the locations wherein it ought to were humorous and makes us destroy into fun every time it attempts to be a mass-hero movie.
The movie does start promisingly. We get a prologue regarding Veera Raghavan (Vijay), a senior RAW officer who finally ends up psychologically scarred following a assignment to seize a most-desired terror mastermind (Liliput Faruqui). He leaves the employer and is making an attempt to cast off his demons, however then, the mall which he's at together along with his lady friend Preethi (Pooja Hegde, whose important feature is to be eye candy) is taken over through terrorists. The government`s negotiator Althaf Hussain (a wry Selvaraghavan, making his appearing debut) manages to coax Veera into taking over the rescue assignment, however can he succeed?
The trouble with Beast is that it has a protagonist who's too sturdy given a assignment that by no means appears to be a challenge. The terrorists hardly ever appear dangerous (they slightly kill anyone, even if seeking to placed worry withinside the hearts of the hostages), and the assignment hardly ever comes throughout as some thing of a frightening undertaking for a daredevil like Veera. None of the hijackers have any personality, which include their chief Saif (Ankur Ajit Vikal). "Innum konjam difficult kuduthurukalam," Veera tells Saif toward the quit of the movie, and it handiest highlights how susceptible the antagonist withinside the movie is.
As in Doctor, Nelson offers his protagonist a group of oddballs with whom he desires to group as much as take down the terrorists, however not like in that movie, the characters right here hardly ever get sufficient display screen time or motivation to be memorable. Only VTV Ganesh manages to generate some laughs even as the shtick regarding Yogi Babu and Redin Kingsley receives tiresome after a even as. Even the bumbling gangster duo from the preceding movie, Mahali and Kili, fail to affect this time.
In stark assessment to Doctor, wherein we noticed such characters running collectively as a group even all through combat scenes (just like the memorable one at the Metro), right here, it's far Vijay who does the whole thing with the others current especially to provide a quip or two. The women, especially, are absolutely sidelined. Weirdly, Nelson offers extra display screen time to multiple characters who're anxious to the core — an vintage lady (Subbalakshmi) who's some of the hostages withinside the mall, and a union minster (Shaji), who has a private cause to be a part of the rescue operation.
