Airlift is basically a story of one of the greatest rescue operations carried out by the India to rescuse around about 1.7 lakhs Indians from Kuwait.
The movie basically revolves around a man Ranjit Katiyar(Akshay Kumar), a big business man in Kuwait.how he hated India and at the end feels proud to be Indian and feels he left the country but the country never let him down.
The movie as per the ending is great but the storyline is somehow dragged to make the movie to be atleast for 2 hours.
The acting of Akshay Kumar is superb due to which you will be glued to the movie else it is a good movie not a great one.
The promo keeps repeatedly showing how India did the rescue but if you see the movie you will realize that India was not much interested to do it.It was Akshay Kumar who kept on trying along with 1 Indian government official.
So a good movie to watch overall but not so much that it can bring a patriotic feeling like Rang De Basanti did.