Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar is back with a power packed performance in his film "Airlift" which will hit theatres on Friday, 22 January. The film, directed by Raja Krishna Menon, sees a fresh pairing of Akshay and Nimrat Kaur.
After "D-Day" and "Baby", the makers are set to entertain viewers with another powerful story. "Airlift" revolves around the arduous task of evacuating 1.7 lakh Indians in Kuwait in 488 flights over a span of 59 days by one man.
Ranjit Katyal
Very few people know that the evacuation process, which was carried out during the Iraq-Kuwait Gulf War of 1990, by one man(played by Akshay in the film) was so large and precise that it created a Guinness World Record for India.
In 1990, the Arab world was shocked by Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait orchestrated by the then dictator of Iraq, Saddam Hussein. While most of the royal Kuwaiti family fled to Saudi Arabia overnight, millions of people were stranded in the war-torn country, mercilessly attacked by the Iraqi forces. Among those stranded in the gulf nation were 1, 70, 000 Indians pleading the Indian Embassy to take them back home.