Overall, Akshay Kumar’s ‘Airlift’ is a good film, solidly plotted, well executed and well-acted. Just lose the songs, Airlift movie review: Katyal is made believable because Akshay Kumar junks faux heroics for an unshowy heroism, which comes from a place of initial reluctance, seguing into a slow acceptance of the situation, and the gradual taking charge because there is no one else that can do the job.
It is August, 1990. Kuwait-based Indian businessman Ranjit Katyal( Akshay Kumar) is awoken rudely from slumber by the news that Iraqi forces have attacked the city. It is the sort of awakening that shakes loose Katyal from his cocooned wealthy life, which he shares with his wife Amrita( Nimrat Kaur) and young daughter, forcing him to deal with a series of dangerous situations, and leading to the evacuation of more than a lakh Indians stuck between Saddam Hussain’s brutal forces and an alarmingly slow-to-take-heed Indian state.