An international terrorist group seizes possession of a busy mall in Chennai after demanding the release of their leader.

In order to free the captives, the Indian government forms a negotiation team under the leadership of Madhav Singh (Selvaragavan), who learns that former RAW agent Veera Raghavan (Vijay) is present inside the mall.

Director Nelson tells the story of what happens next in a hilarious and exciting manner.

Early in January 2020, Sun Pictures purchased the production rights to Vijay's 65th movie, which was slated to be written and directed by AR Murugadoss.

However, after Murugadoss refused to reduce his compensation, the producers fired him from the movie in October 2020.

After being hired, Nelson developed the new script Beast.

Principle photography was held in Chennai, Delhi, and Georgia between April 2021 and December 2021.

Anirudh composed the music, Manoj Paramahamsa handled the cinematography, R. Nirmal handled the editing, and D. R. K. Kiran oversaw the production design.

The Indian anti-terrorist action film "Beast" has a radically inconsistent tone and style throughout, sometimes even within the same scene.

This requires some getting used to, especially in a siege thriller in the vein of "Die Hard" that occasionally doubles as a musical comedy about a dashing bachelor spy who also adores kids and is an expert at beheading and/or killing terrorists.

This Masala-style of Bollywood pop filmmaking, where directors pander to the back row with a schizoid mixture of Vaudevillian quips and pop culture allusions, overdetermined romantic interludes and nationalistic saber-rattling, is nothing out of the ordinary.

This genre of anti-terrorist film also fits in well with a few other Indian projects that have been delayed by COVID, particularly those from Bollywood (Hindi), such as the blockbuster "Sooryavanshi" and the superhero thriller "Suicide Squad."

Beast, a Kollywood (Tamil) star vehicle for Vijay, nonetheless feels unique, if only because of how vehemently its writers market their lead as a Renaissance man of the twenty-first century.

Vijay ("Master") is able to drive a car through numerous glass barriers, perform a little dancing, behead a terrorist, and then throw the terrorist's severed head out of a high window.

Not to mention the scene where Vijay dons a pair of roller blades and figuratively skates circles around a pack of fanatics wearing masks.

The entire film celebrates Vijay's all-things-for-everyone persona, including the chorus of one catchy song that refers to the chipmunk-cheeked hero as "leaner, meaner, stronger.