Bollywood
hunk
Suniel
Shetty
is
best
remembered
for
his
muscles
and
action
roles.
Now,
one
will
see
a
different
side
to
his
acting
prowess
in
Anant
Mahadevan's
Red
Alert
-
The
War
Within,
which
is
a
realistic
depiction
of
naxalism.
If
one
needs
proof
of
his
scintillating
performance,
well,
the
actor
has
won
the
Best
Actor
Award
at
the
international
film
fest,
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
that
he
would
be
choosing
and
portraying
in
future.
Talking
of
hard
work
in
the
project,
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,
who
is
lost
and
unkempt.
He
changed
his
body
language
completely.
The
macho
man
Suniel
is
quite
comfortable
with
giving
'shots'
with
guns
but
in
Red
Alert,
he
plays
a
farmer
who
holds
the
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
mineral
ores
seized
and
their
existence
threatened.
One
cannot
just
eliminate
or
deal
with
them
harshly
because
they
are
our
own
people
and
not
terrorists.
Suniel
also
says
that
it
is
quite
disheartening
that
the
naxal
violence
has
taken
such
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.
The
more
we
try
to
get
out
of
this
complicated
situation,
the
more
we
get
knotted
up.
Well,
now
one
can
witness
the
portrayal
that
Suniel
is
so
passionate
about
when
his
film
releases
on
the
9th
of
July,
at
theatres
near
you.