Airlift is the effort made by the director Raja Menon starring with Akshay Kumar, Nimrat Kaur, to make people of India aware about the businessman Ranjit Katyal which played distinctive role in evacuation of 1,70,000 Indians from Kuwait in 1990 August during Iraq’s invasion.
Indian will feel proud about to know the fact that there was about 448 Air India Flights were under the border of Kuwait to evacuate Indians.
A must watch film based on real story that every Indian should be aware about.
Don’t fall into false assumption of the film is similar to Argo. It is just a objective that you can find similar to the film.
Akshay is playing the role of a rich businessman Ranjit Katyal, who managed to survive the Iraqi invasion, and against all odds started a mission to save all the Indians stuck in Kuwait. Apart from Akshay, the film also stars Nimrat Kaur in the lead role. The Lunchbox actor will play Ranjit’s wife Amrita and reflecting on her and Akshay’s character, Kaur said, “Amrita knows of him as a shrewd businessman who will do anything to make sure that he gets what he wants. And here, he is making a large move as a civilian to rescue 1,70,000 people eventually. He is putting his life and his family’s life on the line. She doesn’t understand him initially, but later on she managed to support him when he was falling apart.”
The movie will be released on 22nd January 2016.
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