In is preceding flims, Kolamavu Kolkila 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 in which it need to had been humorous and makes us damage into fun every time it attempts to be a mass-hero  movie.  

The movie does start promisingly.  We get a prologue regarding Veera Ragavan (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 business enterprise and is making an attempt to cast off his demons, however then, the mall which he's at together along with this female friend Preethi (Pooja Hegde, whose fundamental feature is to be eye candy is taken over through terrorists.

The government's negotiator Althaf Hussain (a wry Selvaraghavan, making his performing debut) manages to coax Veera into taking on the rescue assignment, however can he succeed?  The trouble with Beast is that it has a protagonist who's too strudy given a assignment that in no way appears to be 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 mission for a daredevil life Veera.

None of the hijackers have any personality, togetherwith their chief Saif  (Ankur Ajit Vikal).  “Innum Konjam difficult kuduthurukalam," Veera tells Saif toward the cease of the movie, and it handiest highlights how vulnerable the antagonist withinside the movie is.  As in Doctor, Nelson offers his protagonist a gaggle of oddballs with whom he desires to crew 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 whilst the shtick regarding Yogi Babu and Redin Kingsley receives tiresome after a whilst.

Even the bumbling gangster duo from the preceding movie, Mahali and Kili, fail to affect this time.  In stark evaluation to Doctor, wherein we noticed such characters operating collectively as a crew even all through combat scenes (just like the memorable one at the metro), right here, it's far Vilay who does the whole lot with the others current particularly to provide a quip or two.

The women, especially, are completely sidelined.  Weirdly, Nelson offers extra disply screen time to multiple characters who're worrying to the core-an vintage lady (Subbalakshmi) who's most of the hostages withinside the mall, abd a union minster (Shaji), who has a private purpose to be a part of the rescue operation.