Airlift - 2016 Hindi Movie DVD / 2-Disc Special Edition / Region Free / English Subtitles / Akshay Kumar / Nimrat Kaur

Brilliant movie, cast were great. Akshay Kumar's performance is phenomenal. He deserves an award for this movie. It does make you proud to be an Indian ( even though I am only part Indian). Fantastic movie.

History and shows the sacrifices of some to survive.

Good movie. Akshay at his best.

The DVD arrived in excellent condition.

It's 1990 and Ranjit Katyal (Akshay Kumar) is an Indian businessman living a successful life in Kuwait. He's rather self-centered and imagines himself a Kuwaiti rather than an Indian. After taking his wife Amrita (Nimrat Kaur) to a lavish party, he's woken up at three in the morning by a call. The Iraqis have invaded Kuwait. Since Ranjit is well-connected, he's certain he can take care of things with the Kuwaiti government. By the next day, the government is gone and Ranjit races with his driver to the Indian embassy to find a way out of the country. They are stopped at a checkpoint and the driver is killed. Ranjit has to deal with an Iraqi Republican Guard officer (Inaamulhaq) who was once a bodyguard for Ranjit during a visit to Baghdad. Ranjit gets some assurance that his family will be safe; when he returns to home, he discovers it's been ransacked by Iraqi soldiers. Desperate to find his wife and child, Ranjit looks everywhere, eventually going to his office. His family is there, along with his employees and their families, a rapidly growing group of people. The Iraqis are killing anyone who is Kuwaiti and the Indians are worried about being mistaken for locals. Ranjit has the chance to flee with his wife but he realizes there's 170,000 Indian citizens in Kuwait City with no way out. He rises to the occasion, forming a refugee camp at a school campus and looking for a way for everyone to escape safely.The movie is based on a true story about the 170,000 people trapped in a country that's no longer its own country. The story is powerful and inspiring, how one man rose to the occasion and organized the people to survive and escape. Even though he starts as dismissive toward India and has a lot of trouble getting help from the Indian government, he sees other people (including bureaucrats in the Indian External Affairs Ministry) rise to the occasion too. By film's end, Ranjit has a sense of pride in his homeland and his fellow Indians.The movie is both exciting and well-told. The acting is great. Kumar and Kaur have good chemistry and play the dramatic moments just right, showing both the tension and the love in their relationship. The production values are top-notch, especially the war-torn streets of Kuwait City. As a Bollywood film, there is one song-and-dance number early on. The rest of the film is more straightforward, with the songs giving emotional heft to visual montages.Highly recommended.

This movie is one of the best I have ever seen. Not being Indian, the movie gives a very unique view of people who have largely been minimized in contemporary Western cultures. As a Marine I learned many lessons during my Vet Nam era service, humility and human respect were among the most life changing. Although not as dark as Hotel Rwanda the point is driven home in this movie, that all human life must be respected with dignity and an awareness that people in all countries love their children, their families, their security as much as every American I have ever met.Forget the early dancing scene and the differences between Indian and American film making, you will enjoy the movie!

Having actually lived through the Occupation of Kuwait on the 2nd of August, 1990 not to mention that over forty members of my family lived in Kuwait at the time of the invasion I found this movie insulting, it is a mere work of fantasy. The box cover reads "Based on a True Event" now while this seems to be a popular marketing ploy these days, in this specific case the only "True Event" here is the fact that Iraq did invade Kuwait.First of all and I am not taking any sides here the looting and killing did not happen during the initial phase of the occupation, the chaos broke out many months after that and escalated in January after desert storm began.Second of all the movie shows an Indian servant as a high ranking official of the republican guard stationed in Kuwait?! Are you kidding me? You will not find a single person with half a brain who has lived in the Middle-East or is at least familiar with that area who would find this believable.I am not familiar with the main actor but perhaps he is the Bollywood version of Tom Cruise and has a cult following, perhaps he is a teen Idol, the movie seems to be focused around glorifying him.The occupation of Kuwait was truly one of the most devastating events to occur in Middle-East history this century, I found it incredibly painful to watch this completely unrealistic hideous portrayal of that eventI am just glad this movie was streaming on Netflix, I can't imagine ever paying for this, definitely one of the worst movies I have seen this year.

Was received after all