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Directed by | Ananth Narayan Mahadevan |
Written by | Aruna Raje |
Produced by |
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Starring |
Vinod Khanna Sunil Shetty Bhagyashree Sameera Reddy Ayesha Dharker Seema Biswas Naseeruddin Shah |
Music by | Lalit Pandit |
Production company | Star Entertainment Pvt Ltd |
Release dates | |
Running time | 120 minutes [2] [3] |
Country | India |
Language | Hindi |
Red Alert: The War Within, shortly called as Red Alert, 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 Narsimha 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.
Source for first 12 cast-members: [4] [5] Characters per additional sources.
The film contains only one song, sung by KK.
The Hindi-language film was dubbed into Telugu, Chhattisgarhi and English versions, with all four versions scheduled to be released the same day. [6] Rahul Aggarwal, one of the producers, said all the actors dubbed their English lines themselves. [6]
The film was originally scheduled to be completed and released in 2008. [7]
The film was not reviewed by a sufficient number of contributing critics to be rated at the review aggregating site Rotten Tomatoes. [8] 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." [9] 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." [5] 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." [10]
Red Alert: The War Within | |
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Directed by | Ananth Narayan Mahadevan |
Written by | Aruna Raje |
Produced by |
|
Starring |
Vinod Khanna Sunil Shetty Bhagyashree Sameera Reddy Ayesha Dharker Seema Biswas Naseeruddin Shah |
Music by | Lalit Pandit |
Production company | Star Entertainment Pvt Ltd |
Release dates | |
Running time | 120 minutes [2] [3] |
Country | India |
Language | Hindi |
Red Alert: The War Within, shortly called as Red Alert, 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 Narsimha 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.
Source for first 12 cast-members: [4] [5] Characters per additional sources.
The film contains only one song, sung by KK.
The Hindi-language film was dubbed into Telugu, Chhattisgarhi and English versions, with all four versions scheduled to be released the same day. [6] Rahul Aggarwal, one of the producers, said all the actors dubbed their English lines themselves. [6]
The film was originally scheduled to be completed and released in 2008. [7]
The film was not reviewed by a sufficient number of contributing critics to be rated at the review aggregating site Rotten Tomatoes. [8] 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." [9] 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." [5] 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." [10]