Beast Tamil Movie Review
Cast-;
Thalapathy Vijay, Pooja Hegde, Selvaraghavan, Yogi Babu, Redin Kingsley, Bjorn Surrao, VTV Ganesh, Aparna Das, Shine Tom Chacko, Liliput Faruqui, Ankur Ajit Vikal , ZPrudhvi Raj , Sunil Reddy , Shiva Arvind ,Sujatha Babu ,Subbalakshmi ,Gayathri Shan , Smruthi ,Janani Durga , Madhuri Watts ,Hasini Pavithra , Bjorn Surrao in a cameo and others.
Crew-;
Produced by : Sun Pictures , Directed by : Nelson Dilipkumar , Cinematography : Manoj Paramahamsa , Editing by : R. Nirmal , Art : D.R.K. Kiran , Costume Design by : V. Sai, Pallavi Singh , Makeup : P. Nagarajan , VFX : Bejoy , Arput haraj, Phantom-fx , Stunt : AnbAriv , Choreographer : Jani , Publicity Designs : Gopi Prasanna , PRO : Riaz K Ahmed and others .
Story-;
Veera Raghavan, an Indian RAW agent is assigned to capture the terrorist Umar Farooq. While he successfully manages to do so, a missile shot by him to prevent Farooq’s escape injures and kills a civilian child, traumatising Veera, who quits RAW. Months later, Veera is still reeling from the after-effects of the child’s death. He meets Preethi at a wedding, and they fall in love. Preethi convinces him to join her company ‘Dominic & Soldiers,’ a failing security service. Meanwhile, the Tamil Nadu government gets intel that a major terrorist event is planned in Chennai. Along with Preethi and her boss, Veera visits the East Coast mall, their last client. Veera observes a series of suspicious activities in the mall and deduces that someone else has taken over it.
He is proven right, as terrorists dressed as Santa Claus open fire and hijack the mall. Veera, Preethi, and a few others hide unharmed inside an unopened restaurant. The Government, led by Althaf Hussain, an ex-associate of Veera, try to negotiate with the terrorists, who demand the release of Umar Farooq. Althaf comes to know that Veera is also trapped inside the mall, and he manages to establish contact with him. Althaf tries to convince Veera to help them. Veera, initially hesitant, gets convinced when he realises that the terrorists are here for Umar Farooq. He kills one of the terrorists, captures another one alive, and brings him to their hideout. He manages to infiltrate the terrorists and eliminates a few of them. The Home Minister, who is in league with the terrorists, gets them to stage the execution of his wife and daughter on live TV.
The government succumbs to this and agrees to release Farooq. Enraged, Veera retaliates and kidnaps the home minister’s wife and daughter and, pretending to be a Bangladeshi militant to confuse the terrorists, threatens to kill them if Farooq is released.The leader of the terrorists, Umar Saif, senses his impending defeat and seemingly gives up, only to slip among the crowd pretending to be a hostage. He soon figures out Veera’s real identity and forces him and his aides to give up and captures all of them. With the help of the Home Minister’s daughter, Veera managers to escape, and he eliminates all the terrorists while making sure the hostages escape to safety. The Home Minister is arrested for his involvement with the terrorists. Meanwhile, amid all the negotiation, Umar Farooq was let go. A few months later, Veera finds and captures him in Pakistan and after surviving a long air chase, manages to bring him back to India to have him arrested.
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Movie Review-;
Nelson’s story is oft-repeated and, therefore, lacks novelty. His screenplay moves at a very slow pace and gives the audience a lot of time to think. A thriller like this ought to have such a fast pace that no questions can crop up in the audience’s minds. In the alternative, the questions need to be addressed by the writer. Nelson has added a lot of comedy in the drama but the comedy dilutes the impact of the tension-ridden drama which even otherwise moves at a slow pace. On the whole, RAW is too ordinary to make a mark at the box-office. Its weakest point is it s script and its strongest point is Vijay’s attitude and superstardom. The tone and style of the Indian anti-terror ist action flick “Beast” varies wildly throughout, sometimes even within the same scene. This takes some getting used to, especially in a “Die Hard”-style siege thriller that’s also sometimes a musical-comedy about a handsome bachelor spy who also loves children and excels at dismembering and/or murdering terrorists.
Anirudh tries to add some punch to the scenes with his score, but by the time we get to the end, with writing that is only leaner and never meaner or stronger, even that doesn’t work. The director seems to have banked entirely on his star to carry the film, but with a script that hardly offers him anything to work with, even Vijay can only do so much with his star power.However, the film is bogged down by the lack of inventiveness. There is no powerful villain to take on Vijay and make the proceedings interesting. It is Vijay’s show all the way and he headlines this clichéd thriller. Be it his style or dance or dialogue delivery, Vijay looks at ease and delivers a noteworthy perfo rmance. There’s nothing unusual about this Masala-style of Bollywood pop filmmaking, where filmmakers pan der to the back row with a schizoid combination of Vaudevillian quips and pop culture references, overdet erm ined romantic interludes, and nationalistic saber-rattling.
This sort of anti-terrorist movie also sits comfortably next to a couple of other COVID-delayed Indian producti ons, like the Bollywood (Hindi language) blockbuster “Sooryavanshi” and the Tollywood (Telugu) superhero thr iller “Attack— Lokesh Kanagaraj’s ‘Master’ was overlong due to too many action sequences but it still worked well because of a solid story and an even more solid villain in Vijay Sethupathi. Whereas’ Beast’, directed by Nel son, goes nowhere thanks to a screenplay that doesn’t burst with energy. It suffers from shoddy writing and exe cution. “Beast,” a Kollywood (Tamil) star vehicle for Vijay, still feels different, if only for how vigorously its cre ators try to sell their lead as a 21st century renaissance man. Vijay (“Master”) can dance a little, drive a car throu gh various glass surfaces, and also behead a terrorist and then chuck that guy’s disembodied head out of a tall window. To say nothing of the scene where Vijay puts on a set of roller blades and literally skates circles around a group of mask-wearing extremists.
The director’s attempts to make it ‘cool’ have turned the film completely thunda! On the whole, Vijay rescues the hostages, but he fails to save the film as the writing and execution in the latter part of the movie are lame. Vijay’s all-things-for-everyone self-image is celebrated throughout, as in the chorus of one anthemic song that hails the chipmunk-cheeked hero as “leaner, meaner, stronger.” A concluding number also describes Vijay as a “multifaced tiger with a multifaceted avatar.” At this point in the movie, Vijay’s flying himself back from Pakistan in a borrowed military jet plane, having just independently massacred a terrorist encampment. In bits and pie ces, Beast lives up to all the pre-release hype. The action sequences, which were highly talked about much bef ore release, stand out and Vijay kills it with his charisma in these scenes. This is Vijay’s most stylish film but it’s also one where the style supersedes substance so much that you can’t enjoy it after a point. If only the stylish treatment was strongly complemented by good writing, especially a stronger antagonist, the film wouldn’t have disappointed at places.
As much as Nelson tries to stick to his storytelling template by introducing characters who aid the hero in the rescue mission just like in his last film Doctor; these aren’t as funny and memorable as they were in that film. In “Beast,” Vijay plays Veera, a superhumanly esourceful former member of India’s Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) intelligence agency. Veera retired from RAW eleven years before the movie’s present day: in an intro ductory flashback, Veera unintentionally blows up a little girl with a rocket launcher. Look, there’s no way to make this plot sound less crazed than it is, so let’s have a paragraph break. The cartoonishly ruthless nature of Saif’s guys is a given. Or maybe it’s just not emphasized as often as Veera’s equally brutal counter-measures. There’s also nothing apologetic or conflicted about the violence in the movie, which is effectively played for kicks in a handful of action-intensive set pieces. In an early scene, Veera also slices off one masked villain’s arm by the elbow joint. And he stabs two ISS terrorists to death in front of a captive audience of mall hostages. Between murders, Veera plays dead in order to fake out his second victim.
“This is all normal,” he tells the hostages after he knifes the second guy in the head. The crowd seems to believe Veera since, in a later scene, a very nervous civilian (prolific Tamil comedian Yogi Babu, of course) is beaten up by ISS’ terrorists, but refuses to snitch on Veera. Vijay is not as inspiring in “Beast” as he was as recently as last yea r’s “Master,” though neither movie is disappointing. “Beast” only feels relatively minor because it’s overstuffed with tangential showcases for comic side characters, like peevish negotiator Althaf (Hollywood director Selva raghavan) or bumbling security company boss Dominic (VTV Ganesh). Some of these characters are barely in the movie, like Veera’s love interest Preethi (Pooja Hegde) and her persistent fiancé Ram (Sathish Krishnan). Ok, so Veera’s now extra-sensitive about kids, which explains why he only springs back into action after he, now wor king for a failing security company, hears the cries of distressed children after the ISIS-style ISS terrorists take over Chennai’s East Coast Mall. These terrorists are ruthless, as we can tell by the way that one of them back-hands a lady and traumatizes a crying girl.
(among other things) ISS’s terrorists are led by Saif (Ankur Ajit Vikal), who spends most of the movie wearing a Latex mask that weirdly resembles Anton LaVey, and his traitorous accomplice, the Indian government’s unnam ed Home Minister (Shaji Chen), as we see in an early scene. Overall, Beast has cemented Vijay’s place as one of the industry’s top stars, it has ensured Nelson Dilipkumar’s name as a bankable director who has also created his own signature. More importantly, the general audiences and Vijay fans are in for a solid entertainer that’s al so technically par excellence. It ends up as a film that has high repeat watch value!Verdict: Vijay shoulders Bea st, a stylishly shot action thriller which has equally engaging comedy moments. In time, the movie’s routine narrat ive digressions also seem normal enough since, according to Yogi Babu’s sub-pot, it takes a village to support Chennai’s own John McClane. Luckily, Vijay makes up for lost time during the movie’s energetic action scenes, most of which are as polished and well-designed as they need to be.
Vijay’s dancing hasn’t improved much, but he looks more comfortable making photo booth-worthy faces (mostly pouts and snarls) while firing a big gun in slow-motion. The key to enjoying “Beast” is accepting its inelegant, inco nsistent, and often insane terms and conditions. There’s so much of everything—and in such haphazard portions!—that the main thing holding this thing together often seems to be the movie’s centralized location and Vijay’s abundant and well-advertised swagger. He’s almost as good as he needs to be here, and it’s hard to stay mad at a movie where bloody violence and/or corny jokes frequently break out in a mall that advertises for Basics, Pantal oons, and the Fruit Shop on Greams Road. Watching the movie’s ensemble cast members valiantly struggle to ma ke this ungainly action-comedy seem even sort of normal is usually more engaging than the movie’s big action sc enes, too. By the time Vijay breaks out his in-line skates, everything that doesn’t quite work about “Beast” only enhances the movie’s genuinely endearing too-much-ness. Beast has all the ingredients to attract the family aud ience in droves to the theatres. After a few minutes in to the movie, the audience will get desensitized to blood. Vijay is in exceptional form as he delivers a beastly performance. It is worth watching to admire Vijay’s suave an d fluent all round performance.
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Written By- T.H.PRASAD -B4U-Ratting-3 /5
