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Red Alert: The War Within
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Wikipedia article
'Red Alert: The War Within' is an Indian film that released theatrically in India on 9 July 2010. 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
Source for first 12 cast-members:[http://www.redalertthemovie.com/cast_crew.html 'Red Alert: The War Within' official site: "Cast & Crew"] Characters per additional sources.
*Sunil Shetty ... Narasimha
*Sameera Reddy ... Laxmi[http://www.films4u.in/?p=417 "Sameera Reddy as Laxmi in 'Red Alert The War Within'"], H.S. Communications via Films4U.in, 27 June 2010
*Ayesha Dharker... Radhaka
*Seema Biswas... Saralaka
*Bhagyashree... Uma
*Ashish Vidyarthi ... Velu
*Makrand Deshpande... V.K. Raghavan
*Sunil Sinha ...
*Ehsan Khan... Krishna
*Gulshan Grover ... Deputy Inspector General RathodLovece, Frank. [http://www.filmjournal.com/filmjournal/content_display/esearch/e3i665ac00464803dd2d7650c616a6f6ac6 "Film Review: 'Red Alert: The War Within'"], 'Film Journal International', 8 July 2010
*Naseeruddin Shah... Naga
*Vinod Khanna... Krishnaraj
*Ashraful Haque... Naxalite
*Vikas Shrivastav... Naxalite
Release
The Hindi-language film was dubbed into Telugu, Chhattisgarhi and English versions, with all four versions scheduled to be released the same day.Adarsh, Taran. [http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/news/2010/07/06/14325/index.html "Red Alert to release in four languages"], BollywoodHungama.com, 6 July 2010 Rahul Aggarwal, one of the producers, said all the actors dubbed their English lines themselves.
The film was originally scheduled to be completed and released in 2008.[http://www.realbollywood.com/news/2008/05/suniel-shetty-red-alert.html "Suniel Shetty to work in film on Maoists in 'Red Alert'"], RealBollywood.com, 14 May 2008
Response
The film was not reviewed by a sufficient number of contributing critics to be rated at the review aggregating site Rotten Tomatoes.[https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/red_alert_the_war_within/ 'Red Alert: The War Within'] at Rotten Tomatoes 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."Saltz, Rachel. [https://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/09/movies/09red.html "Maoists Rebelling in India"], 'The New York Times', 9 July 2010 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." 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."Keleman, Adam. [https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/red-alert-the-war-within/4889 "'Red Alert: The War Within'"], 'Slant', 8 July 2010
Accolades
* Winner, Director's Vision Award at the 2009 Stuttgart Film Festival
* Winner, South Asian International Film Festival Award for Best Actor - Sunil Shetty
* Winner, Stardust Search Light Award for Best Actor - Sunil Shetty
References
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