Beast Movie Synopsis: Former RAW officers held hostage in a terrorist hijacked shopping district fail the plan and prevent the government from releasing the terrorists he might have imprisoned at great personal expense. Have to. Beast Movie Review: His previous films, Koramaab Kokira and Dr. Nelson, have infused humor into situations that may not have been interesting on paper. Also, in Beast, he takes serious situations, hostage situations and tries to make them interesting. But this time he is far from successful. In fact, this movie brings out little of the laughter it should have been, and always makes us laugh when it comes to becoming a Macello movie. The film does begin promisingly. We get a prologue involving Veera Raghavan (Vijay), a senior RAW officer who ends up psychologically scarred following a mission to capture a mostwanted terror mastermind (Liliput Faruqui). He leaves the organisation and is trying to get rid of his demons, but then, the mall which he is at with his girlfriend Preethi (Pooja Hegde, whose main function is to be eye candy) is taken over by terrorists. The government`s negotiator Althaf Hussain (a wry Selvaraghavan, making his acting debut) manages to coax Veera into taking up the rescue mission, but can he succeed? The problem with Beast is that it has a protagonist who is too strong given a mission that never seems to be a challenge. Terrorists look little dangerous (though they try to scare hostages, they rarely kill anyone), and missions don't seem like a daunting task for Daredevil like Veera. Kidnappers, including the leader Saif (Ankur Ajit Vikal), have no personality. "Myriad conjam tough Kudutsurkalam," Vera tells Saif towards the end of the film, just emphasizing how weak the adversary is in the film. Like a doctor, Nelson gives the protagonist a lot of weirdos to team up to defeat terrorists, but unlike the movie, the characters can get enough screen time and motivation to be memorable. Rarely. Only VTV Ganesh manages to laugh, and the disgust between Yogi Babu and Redin Kingsley gets tired after a while. Even the bumbling gangster duo from the previous film, Mahali and Kili, fail to impress this time. In stark contrast to Doctor, in which we saw such characters working together as a team even during fight scenes (like the memorable one on the Metro), here, it is Vijay who does everything with the others existing mainly to offer a quip or two. The women, especially, are totally sidelined. Weirdly, Nelson gives more screen time to a couple of characters who are irritating to the core — an old lady (Subbalakshmi) who is among the hostages in the mall, and a union minster (Shaji), who has a personal motive