He considers himself more Kuwaiti than Indian apparently because Kuwait is more rich.

So Akshay Kumar plays a Kuwait based Punjabi businessman who is not in love with his Indian roots, named Ranjeet Katiyal. So we have to endure a completely fictitious Punjabi hero doing the heroics rather than the real persons, and this is the biggest flaw of the film. The real heroes get their photos shown only at the fag end of the movie when finally due credit is given to them. So a Punjabi hero is invented out of thin air and he is shown to be the main protagonist of the evacuation. Giving oneself a pat on the back is apparently an art forgotten by Indians, who are more busy making films glorifying dons based in Karachi or denigrating the country’s image overseas.Īnd the pat on the back is not given to the real persons who were involved in the making of the evacuation, for the simple reason that they do not fit the stereotypical image of the Bollywood hero- neither do they look like heroes nor do they seem to be Punjabi. But strangely this very real fact has not been given prominence by either the Indian media or the government, and it is only a quarter century after the airlift that someone has woken up to make a film on it. The feat of evacuating such a large number of people by civilian aircraft remains the largest such civilian airlift in world history. Airlift is a film based on a true story- the aerial evacuation of one hundred and seventy thousand Indians trapped in Kuwait after Saddam Hussein invaded that country in 1990 and that region became a war zone.

Airlift hindi movie summary