Red Alert: The War Within

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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
Music by
Production
company
Star Entertainment Pvt Ltd
Release dates
  • 19 July 2009 (2009-07-19)(Stuttgart Bollywood and Beyond)
  • 9 July 2010 (2010-07-09)(India) [1]
Running time
120 minutes [2] [3]
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi

Red Alert: The War Within is an Indian crime drama film directed by Ananth Narayan Mahadevan. It was 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.

Contents

Red Alert premiered at the 6th Stuttgart Film Festival in 2009.

Cast

Source for first 12 cast-members: [4] Characters per additional sources.

Release

The Hindi-language film was dubbed into Telugu, Chhattisgarhi and English versions, with all four versions scheduled to be released the same day. [7] Rahul Aggarwal, one of the producers, said all the actors dubbed their English lines themselves. [7]

The film was originally scheduled to be completed and released in 2008. [8]

Response

The film was not reviewed by a sufficient number of contributing critics to be rated at the review aggregating site Rotten Tomatoes. [9] 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." [10] 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." [11]

Accolades

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References

  1. 1 2 Red Alert: The War Within at Box Office Mojo
  2. ↑ "Movie Synopsis: Red Alert: The War Within (Hindi)", Philly.com ( Philadelphia Inquirer / Philadelphia Daily News )
  3. ↑ "Movies: Red Alert: The War Within (English)", The Miami Herald
  4. ↑ Red Alert: The War Within official site: "Cast & Crew"
  5. ↑ "Sameera Reddy as Laxmi in Red Alert – The War Within", H.S. Communications via Films4U.in, 27 June 2010
  6. 1 2 3 Lovece, Frank. "Film Review: Red Alert: The War Within", Film Journal International , 8 July 2010
  7. 1 2 Adarsh, Taran. "Red Alert to release in four languages", BollywoodHungama.com, 6 July 2010
  8. ↑ "Suniel Shetty to work in film on Maoists in 'Red Alert'", RealBollywood.com, 14 May 2008
  9. ↑ Red Alert: The War Within at Rotten Tomatoes
  10. ↑ Saltz, Rachel. "Maoists Rebelling in India", The New York Times , 9 July 2010
  11. ↑ Keleman, Adam."Red Alert: The War Within", Slant , 8 July 2010
  12. 1 2 Iyer, Meena (10 November 2009). "Suniel wins award for Red Alert". The Times Of India. Retrieved 5 July 2011.
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