Suniel Shetty is known for his muscles and action roles in Bollywood. Now, he will be seen in a different role in Anant Mahadevan's Red Alert - The War Within, which is a realistic depiction of naxalism.
Suniel has won the Best Actor Award for the film at the South Asian International Film Festival (SAIFF). Obviously, the actor is elated and proud of the fact that his hard work has paid off but the award has also made him conscious of roles he would be choosing and portraying in future.
Suniel admits to turning himself inside out for the role. The guy who has played a fearless hero in all his films had to play a helpless and hapless farmer in Red Alert. Sunile changed his body language completely.
The macho man Suniel is quite comfortable with giving 'shots' with guns but in Red Alert, his character holds a gun for the first time. So, director Mahadevan had him refer to the naive Dith Pran character in Roland Jaffe’s Killing Fields.
Suniel has not prepared for his role blindly. He is quite aware of the problem of naxalism. Ask him about his take on it and he admits that the problem is not plain black and white. It's more complex than one can imagine, according to him. He opines that naxals are often helpless people who have been exploited and their existence threatened. One cannot just eliminate them or deal with them harshly because they are our own people and not terrorists.
Suniel also says that it is quite disheartening that the naxalism exists in shocking proportions. The actor is also aware of the fact that violence can only result in violence and the Red Belt is bleeding with violence now.
Red Alert releases on July 9, 2010 across India.
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