On the flip side, length of the movie could have been reduced little further. Icing on the cake is the climax scenes which has been well executed.
From here onward, there is no turning back as the movie gives you nice twist-n-turns with well- choreographed action scenes. Airlift will consume you right from the beginning especially when Akshay's family faces the issue of Iraqi raiding Kuwait.
From the director of critical acclaimed films like Bas Yun Hi and Barah Aana, Raja Menon does a fantastic research about the feat that was even recorded in the Guinness Book of World Record and surprisingly people are unaware about it. Based on a true story, Airlift speaks about the Ranjit Katyal (played by Akshay Kumar) who helps the Indian Government collaborate with Air India to help evacuate 1,70,000 Indians from Kuwait after Iraq raided the country. Move over commercial masala potboilers with item songs, hero smashing 10 guys with a single blow and typical song-dance routine Raja Menon's Airlift will give you goosebumps with fast-paced gritting thrills and excitement.
Over the years Akshay Kumar's choice of selecting the films has certainly improved with significant examples being Holiday, Baby, Special Chabbis, Gabbar Is Back to name few. Airlift is an uplifting and entertaining edge-of-the-seat thriller and is the story of the biggest ever human evacuation in the history of mankind. 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 back home. 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. 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. Airlift is the story of Indians stranded in Kuwait during this traumatic time. Ranjit unknowingly becomes the man who all 170,000 Indians look up to for getting them out safely from Kuwait. 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.
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