airlift movie review

Airlift

Theatrical release poster
Directed by Raja Krishna Menon
Produced by
Nikhil Advani
Monisha Adwani
Aruna Bhatia
Madhu G. Bhojwani
Bhushan Kumar
Krishan Kumar
Vikram Malhotra
Written by
Raja Krishna Menon
Suresh Nair
Rahul Nangia
Ritesh Shah
Starring
Akshay Kumar
Nimrat Kaur
Music by
Songs:
Amaal Mallik
Ankit Tiwari
Background score:
Arijit Dutta
Cinematography Priya Seth
Edited by Hemanti Sarkar
Production
company
Abundantia Entertainment
Cape of Good Films
Emmay Entertainment
Hari Om Entertainment
T-Series
Distributed by Prateek Entertainment
Release dates
21 January 2016 (Dubai)
22 January 2016 (India)
Running time
125 minutes[1]
Country India
Language Hindi
Budget ₹30 crore (US$4.5 million)[2]
Box office est. ₹231.6 crore (US$34 million)[3]
Airlift is a 2016 Indian war thriller film directed by Raja Krishna Menon, starring Akshay Kumar and Nimrat Kaur.[4] 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, as he carries out the evacuation of Indians based in Kuwait during the Invasion of Kuwait by Saddam Hussein's Iraq.[5][6]

With a budget of ₹300 million (US$4.5 million), the film premiered worldwide on 22 January 2016. The marketing of the film played an important role in the film's promotion and collaborated with the flight company Air India, who had a major contribution in the evacuation of record-breaking number of Indians during the war.