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Produced by T P Agarwal and Rahul Agarwal and directed by Ananth Narayan Mahadevan RED ALERT, which is based on the true story of a man's emotional adventure and is as scorching as today's headlines, is now the official selection at the South Asian International Film Festival (SAIFF) in New York this month and will also have an Asian premiere at the prestigious India International Film Festival in Goa in November. RED ALERT-THE WAR WITHIN is now targeting more prestigious international fetes like the Sundance Film Festival before its theatrical release worldwide. The brutally uncompromising nature of the film and an effort to meet world cinema standards is what has appealed to international festival heads who have watched the film.

RED ALERT-THE WAR WITHIN boasts of the most exciting ensemble cast ever gathered...Suneil Shetty, Sameera Reddy, Seema Biswas, Naseeruddin Shah, Vinod Khanna, Ayesha Dharker, Ashish Vidyarthi, Gulshan Grover and Bhagyashree. Javed Akhtar has penned the fiery theme number which Lalit has composed. Allan Amin returns to his BANDIT QUEEN days of raw, brutal action. In the final analysis, RED ALERT-THE WAR WITHIN has shaped out to be the years most significant and topical film, culled as it is from the story of the biggest threat to the nation's security today.

Says Galen Rosenthal, head of programming for SAIFF, "We would very much like to have the North American premiere of RED ALERT: THE WAR WITHIN. We absolutely love your film and would be honored to screen it. RED ALERT- THE WAR WITHIN, which represent new age cinema in Bollywood is produced by Star Entertainment's T P Agarwal and Rahul Agarwal."