Airlift Movie Review!

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Akshay Kumar has been doing some good movies recently but they have been mixed with some not so good ones. How that works for his career is not my concern, but does he draw me to the theatre is the real question. The decision, whether I should make that trip to the movie hall, was made because of Nimrat Kaur in the cast. 

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Airlift is Raja Menon’s representation of the largest civil evacuation in history –the evacuation of Indians who as one character in the movie says were rendered “refugees because of Iraq’s occupation of Kuwait”. This is one of those few movies, which has tried to show war time on ground reality. The story is about what happens when an Indian businessman, who proudly considers himself Kuwaiti, is faced with the horrid reality of Iraqi occupation. The movie captures his initial inconsideration to his gradual resolve to ensure and execute the safety of his 1,70,000 stranded compatriots.

But the story is not like your typical serious mission movies, as one would expect.The movie incorporates Hindi film industry elements with song, dance and sentimental scenes, to perhaps pacify the intense situation in the movie. You’ve got your oh-i-hate-the-bureaucracy scenes, to the rise of patriotism on seeing the flag scenes, and of course the one absolutely amazing hearted supporting actor. But none of these bring down the movie drastically. I would in fact dub Airlift as the guide to making Indian style rescue operation movies. It caters to all. I literally saw the audience clapping and whistling furiously in every patriotism laden scene.

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The cinematography and the dialogues are dealt in a good fashion and the casting is also pretty great. The supporting cast of Purab Kohli , Inaamul haq , Kumud Mishra and Prakash Belawadi have all done great justice to their roles. The way the characters are written is also pretty realistic with our main leads initially showing their grey sides. Nimrat Kaur is also just a supporting character, but she does an amazing job. Akshay Kumar, the hero of the movie feels somewhat similar to Oskar Schindler’s role in Schindler’s List, but none the less equally brilliant, being based on real life heroes Sunny Mathews and Vedi. He essays the character convincingly.

The music is essentially there to lighten the serious plot and is only descent.

Airlift  does become one man army kind of a story, when in reality many more were involved but the creative freedom does not become out rightly outrageous. if you can get past the little Indian-ised emotional interruptions .Airlift is a good movie with a simple yet intelligent plot and great acting.

Watch it-

1.       For the great Indian rescue story    2.For the good movie making   3.And wonderful acting.

Rating-3.5