Airlift is a 2016 indian war thriller film directed by Raja Krishna Menon, and starring Akshay Kumar and Nimrat kaur. The script, written by Raja Krishna Menon developed the idea after studying the whole incident of the war, and which he subsequently expanded.
The film follows ranjit katyal ( Akshay Kumar) , a kuwait based businessman, carries out a biggest civil operation of evcution of indians based in kuwait during the iraq-kuwait war carried out during the reign president saddam hussein of Iraq