Red Alert: The War Within
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| Directed by | Ananth Narayan Mahadevan |
| Written by | Aruna Raje |
| Produced by | Rahul Aggarwal T. P. Aggarwal |
| Starring | Sunil Shetty Sameera Reddy Bhagyashree |
| music = Lalit Pandit | cinematography = K. Rajkumar | editing = Vinod Pathak | studio = | distributor = | released = 9 Jul 2010 | runtime = 113 mins | country = India | language = Hindi | budget = | gross }} Red Alert: The War Within is an Indian film that released theatrically in India on 9 July 2010.[1] The drama is based on the true story of Narasimha who gets caught up in a clash between police and Naxalites and is then forced to work with the latter.
Red Alert premiered at the 6th Stuttgart Film Festival in 2009.
Cast
- Sunil Shetty as Narasimha
- Sameera Reddy as Lakshmi
- Bhagyashree as Uma
- Ayesha Dharker as Radhaka
- Seema Biswas as Saralaka
- Ashish Vidyarthi as Velu
- Makrand Deshpande as Raghavan
- Ehsan Khan as Krishna A. Rao
- Gulshan Grover as Rathod
- Vinod Khanna as Krishnaraj
- Naseeruddin Shah as Naga Reddy
Release
The Hindi-language film was dubbed into Telugu, Chhattisgarhi and English versions, with all four versions scheduled to be released the same day.[2] Rahul Aggarwal, one of the producers, said all the actors dubbed their English lines themselves.[2]
The film was originally scheduled to be completed and released in 2008.[3]
Response
The film was not reviewed by a sufficient number of contributing critics to be rated at the review aggregating site Rotten Tomatoes.[4] Rachel Saltz of The New York Times said the film "seems torn between two storytelling modes: episodic with a documentary flavor and action-driven pulp. It makes a hash of both." She added, "For some reason [it] has been dubbed into heavily accented English for American release, adding an unnecessary 'What did he say?' level of difficulty."[5] Frank Lovece of Film Journal International echoed that, saying, the film "plays like one of those stiff historical drams that educational-film companies make for schools. Or in this case, an outsourced educational-film company."[6] Adam Keleman of Slant believed, "The unforgivable flaw of the film is its lack of subtlety, the way character detail and plot development is laid for us on a silver platter, never requiring the audience to ... fully engage with the intricacies of the lead character's internal and moral quandary."[7]
Accolades
- Winner, Director's Vision Award at the 2009 Stuttgart Film Festival[8]
- Winner, South Asian International Film Festival Award for Best Actor - Sunil Shetty [8]
- Winner, Stardust Search Light Award for Best Actor - Sunil Shetty
References
- ^ Red Alert: The War Within at Box Office Mojo
- ^ a b Adarsh, Taran. "Red Alert to release in four languages", BollywoodHungama.com, July 6, 2010
- ^ "Suniel Shetty to work in film on Maoists in 'Red Alert'", RealBollywood.com, May 14, 2008
- ^ Red Alert: The War Within at Rotten Tomatoes
- ^ Saltz, Rachel. "Maoists Rebelling in India", The New York Times, July 9, 2010
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
fjiwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Keleman, Adam. "Red Alert: The War Within", Slant, July 8, 2010
- ^ a b Iyer, Meena (November 10, 2009). "Suniel wins award for Red Alert". The Times Of India. The Times of India. Retrieved 2011-07-05.
External links
- Red Alert: The War Within (official site)
- Red Alert: The War Within at IMDb
- Tuteja, Joginder. "'Red Alert could have been set in Cuba or Ireland' - Anant Mahadevan", BollywoodHungama.com, July 7, 2010
- Kashifrazaseed. "Red Alert, eye opener on Naxalism, lesson for all", AllVoices.com, June 30, 2010
