It's hot, it's news and it's damn serious this time! It's the pick of the season and no tourist is getting chance to wander in the heaven called Khandala.

The reason is the Red Alert infused in the area. Believe it or not the most of the area has become conspicuous by the absence of tourists.

And the owners of hotels and restaurants of the area are forcing their days through unattended before experience. Why?

The simple reason is it's the Red Alert that has captured maximum number of rooms in Khandala. Well, well, you must be getting too confused. Actually, it's all about Ananth Narayan Mahadevan and his gang shooting for the film Red Alert – the War Within in Khandala.

The director seems quite happy looking at the Khandala hotels being invaded by his crew. "Initially the hotels refused to give us rooms because they are not giving discount due to the season. But we would plead with them only to give 2 rooms.

After a day we would again go begging for two more rooms for the fighters and then next day for 2 more. Slowly we have most of hotels with us. And they are so happy that we are wrapping up by this weekend, " smiles Ananth Mahadevan.

The scenario is the same for last 23 days during which Mahadevan is busy canning his Alert with Suneil Shetty, Sameera Reddy, Ayesha Dharkar, Seema Biswas, Markand Deshpande and others in and around the area of Khandala.

Throughout all these days visitors are finding it quite difficult to have rooms for them to stay in Khandala and hotel owners have no option than to think the season will end up in this way only.

Though the Red Alert in Khandala is a reason for smile to Mahadevan but he may look at the other side of the matter also.

People may not be too happy with this kinda shooting invasion and they may also think about announcing red alert in cinemas after the film gets released. After all if money can beget money, why can't alert beget an alert? Do you still have a reason to smile Mahadevan?