Beast

Beast is a Tamil action, romance movie written and directed by Nelson Dilipkumar. The movie Beast has Thalapathy Vijay and Pooja Hegde as the lead roles, with Yogi Babu, Shine Tom Chacko, VTV Ganesh, Selvaragavan, Redin Kingsley and Aparna Das in supporting roles. The music is composed by Anirudh Ravichander, cinematography was handled by Manoj Paramahamsa, editing by R. Nirmal and production design supervised by D. R. K. Kiran, respectively. The movie produced by Kalanidhi Maran under the banner Sun Pictures. Story A busy mall in Chennai city gets hijacked by an international terrorist organization in demand of release the head of the terrorist organization. Indian government sets up a negotiation with the team head Althaf (Selvaragavan). He starts negotiating with a terrorist organization.  He finds out his ex-colleague former RAW agent Veera Raghavan (Vijay) is inside the mall and seeks help from him to rescue the hostages from the terrorists. Veera Raghavan (Vijay) is a RAW agent, who has quit work after a young civilian died when he was carrying out his mission. The former RAW agent starts his mission inside the hijacked place against the terrorists. What happens next rest of the story is narrated with Nelson's humorous and action storytelling. Release The movie shoot kickstarted on 31 March 2021 at Sun Studios, and later shifted to Georgia. The first look poster along with the movie title announcement happened on June 21, 2021. Beast was released in theatres on 13 April 2022. The movie Beast released with dubbed versions in Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada and Hindi languages, with the Hindi version titled Raw. The distribution rights for Tamil Nadu are held by Red Giant Movies.