Airlift Movie Teaser:Akshay Kumar’s much-awaited movie ‘Airlift’ is out. The actor, who has impressed his fans with his roles in ‘Baby’, ‘Special 26’ and ‘Soldier’ is ready with another edge of the seat thriller. Akshay Kumar, who is busy wrapping up the last schedule of Airlift in Rajasthan, tweeted the first look of his movie to his fans today The teaser which was released is based on the biggest evacuation of Indians based in Kuwait during the Iraq-Kuwait war (1990-91). When Iraq invated Kuwait in august 1990, the Iraqi army took over the city within a few hours. while most of the royal families managed to escape the invasion and flew down to Saudi Arabia, the general population had no other option but to stay back. They were looted and made to suffer great tragedies.
Akshay Kumar’s Airlift Movie Teaser
During this time, around 170,000 Indians in Kuwait were homeless and moneyless. The teaser shows Ranjeet Katyal (Akshay Kumar), a rich, powerful businessman who had always seen himself as a Kuwaiti and not Indian, with the help of the Indian government, safely evacuated these 170,000 Indians back to their country. Airlift is based on a true story that holds a Guinness World Record for the biggest ever evacuation in the world.
India airlifted over 1,70,000 people from Kuwait in the largest human
evacuation in history #AirliftTeaserTomorrow pic.twitter.com/UBKuy3KN8f— Akshay Kumar (@akshaykumar) November 17, 2015
Nimrat Kaur essays the role of his wife. Set in the backdrop of the Gulf war of 1990, it shows how Akshay’s Ranjit suddenly loses everything and has to depend on the country he left behind, India, for his very survival.
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