Beast (2022 Indian movie)

Beast is a 2022 Indian Tamil-language action comedy movie written and directed by Nelson and produced by Sun Pictures. The movie stars Vijay and Pooja Hegde in lead roles. Selvaraghavan, Yogi Babu, and Redin Kingsley play supporting roles. It revolves around an ex-RAW agent's crusade to rescue people held hostage in a shopping mall by terrorists.

Production
The production rights of Vijay's 65th movie as lead actor were acquired by Sun Pictures in early January 2020. It was titled Thalapathy 65. The movie was set to be written and directed by AR Murugadoss. However, the producers ousted Murugadoss from the movie in October 2020, after he refused to cut his renumeration. Nelson was later hired and he wrote a new script for the movie.

Schedule
With an official announcement during December 2020, the movie began principal photography in April 2021. It wrapped in December. The movie was shot across various locations in Chennai, including a specially designed set resembling that of a shopping mall where most of the movie was shot. Sporadic schedules took place in Delhi and Georgia. The music was composed by Anirudh Ravichander, cinematography was handled by Manoj Paramahamsa, editing by R. Nirmal and production design supervised by D. R. K. Kiran.

The movie was released in theaters on 13 April 2022. It received mixed reviews from critics and the audience.

Cast
Vijay as Veera Raghavan
Pooja Hegde as Preethi
Selvaraghavan as Althaf Hussain
Shine Tom Chacko as a terrorist who sides with Veera
Yogi Babu as Jill
Redin Kingsley as Jack
VTV Ganesh as Dominic Irudhayaraj
Shaji Chen as the Home Minister
Aparna Das as Aparna
Sathish Krishnan as Ramachandran
Lilliput as Umar Farooq
Ankur Ajit Vikal as Umar Saif
Prudhvi Raj as Veera's psychiatrist
Sunil Reddy as Mahaali
Shiva Arvind as Killi 
Sujatha Babu as Aparna's mother
Subbalakshmi as a hostage
Gayathri Shan as a hostage
Smruthi as a hostage
Janani Durga as a hostage
Madhuri Watts as a hostage
Hasini Pavithra as a hostage
Bjorn Surrao in a cameo appearance as a drummer in the song "Jolly O Gymkhana"

Additionally, director Nelson, music composer Anirudh and choreographer Jani appear in cameo appearances as themselves in the song "Jolly O Gymkhana".

References

Category:2022 movies
Category:2020s Indian movies
Category:2022 action movies
Category:2022 comedy movies