Airlift is a nice movie. Airlift is Argo with a split personality, songs and questionable fidelity to facts.
The film is loosely based on the true story of how Indians were evacuated from Kuwait after the Iraqi invasion in 1990.
According to a 2014 report, after Saddam Hussein’s forces overran Kuwait in August 1990, the Indian government evacuated more than 110000 citizens from Iraq and Kuwait via an airlift that included nearly 500 flights. The operation is the largest civilian evacuation in history.
For the most part, Airlift is a focused, no-nonsense narrative. Akshay delivers a controlled performance for the most part. Nimrat is excellent, keeping herself in check even when the director has Amrita gazing at Ranjit in loverly fashion while walking in slow motion with a song playing in the background. This would have been a better film it it had been fairer to the people whose story it was telling.Still with all its flaws Airlift is an amazing movie.