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Red Alert (2015 film)

2015 Indian film

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ136565817 ↗
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Red Alert is a 2015 Indian action drama film co-written and directed by Chandra Mahesh. The film stars H. H. Mahadev, Anjana Menon, Suman and Vinod Kumar Alva. The film was simultaneously shot in Kannada, Malayalam and Telugu with the Malayalam version titled as High Alert. All three versions featured a slightly different supporting cast.

Plot

Four boys from the city come to watch the massive Ganesha immersion. What turn did their lives take forms the rest of the story.

Cast

Production

Director Chandra Mahesh initially proposed his script to Suresh Reddy of 6TV Telangana, but Reddy was busy at the time and was unable to produce the film so Chandra Mahesh sought out a different producer. The film began production on 15 March 2014. The film was shot in four languages namely Kannada, Malayalam, Telugu and Tamil, although the Tamil version Chennai Nagaram was never released. This film marked the debut of H. H. Mahadev, who was also the producer's son.

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Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2015, 2014—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Alert, film and Indian can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Red Alert (2015 film)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.