#AIRLIFT - One can’t help but compare it with Baby, and sadly it doesn’t match. Let’s begin from the beginning – when you have a badly shot item song in the first 7 minutes of a war/rescue movie, you’ve half lost me already.
Akshay Kumar plays with elan Ranjit Katyal, a Kuwait based business tycoon whose world is shattered when Iraq attacks Kuwait. It’s a story of his unrelenting fight for evacuating 1.7 lakh fellow Indians safely with help from some bureaucrats in Delhi and Air India. There was some clapping in the theatre, so guess he turns out to be a crowd pleaser.
Nimrat Kaur sleep walks the first half, seems she was in awe of a commercial movie star, but plays it well in the 2nd. Purab Kohli is good as Ibrahim and so is Prakash Belawadi as George Kutty, a constantly cribbing soul. Inaamulhaq as Major Khalaf bin Zayd is such a caricature that he inspires neither wrath nor fear. Dialogues are crisp 22% of the time. The screenplay is just about Ok since it’s inspired by real life events. Am no expert at camera techniques but certain angles were real bad, so were the Iraqi soldiers and few Kuwait sets. A one-time watch unless you love Ekta Kapoor’s gifted brother and sex comedies.