Wednesday, May 27, 2020
Airlift (2016)
Synopsis
It is in this scenario that Ranjit Katyal (played
by Akshay Kumar), a wealthy and powerful Indian businessman, who has
always seen himself as a Kuwaiti, rather than an Indian, realizes that
he no longer wields any influence on the Iraqis, and that he and his
family are in as much danger as anyone else. Ranjit unknowingly becomes
the man who all 170,000 Indians look up to for getting them out safely
from Kuwait. Airlift is the story of Indians stranded in Kuwait during
this traumatic time. A story of how they, with the help of Ranjit
Katyal, managed to survive the Iraqi invasion, and against all odds
traveled a thousand kilometers across the border into Amman, Jordan.
From Amman, 170,000 Indians were brought home by the largest and the
most successful evacuation ever attempted by any country, in the history
of the world. Over 59 days, the Indian government systematically flew
over 488 Air India commercial flights into a war zone to evacuate all
170,000 Indians and safely bring them ...
