Airlift

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arun s @RT38034373 01/30/2021 I didn't like this film the first time I watched on theater. Ranjit Katyal was not the only man who saved the people, and lots of time happened in the background as well. The main plus of this film is that it feels it is directly speaking to you, which is not the case with many Bollywood films. i still feel this film had many overblown and unnecessary sequences but it is a decent watch. ill leave it at that. See more 02/15/2020 One word for the movie "Masterpiece" See more yash b @yashbansal 12/07/2018 "Airlift" is a rock solid thriller from Bollywood. What I liked about this movie is that it really kept me on the edge of my seat. I felt that at any moment the stakes were high and anything could happen. When something dangerous happens to any of the characters, I genuinely felt the breakneck intensity. I do feel the movie does go back in forth in terms of pacing but for the most part, it was solid entertainment. It's not a conventional Bollywood movie, but it works for the story it trying to tell.  See more 01/05/2018 This is a substandard version of hotel rwanda(2004) with no continuation at all. Marketing of this movie was the best part and foolish people went to see the movie and felt as if they became nationalists after watching a wrong depiction of a historic moment in india's history. You might feel no involvement in the storyline and events being portrayed. Some of the best actors given some scenes that were not really required just to increase their screen presence with some shitty dialogue, speech or emotion. It is the most over hyped crap that should had been better. See more 01/21/2017 Airlift is a Bollywood flick from 2016 that is based on a true story about over 170,000 Indians that had to flee Kuwait at the time of the 1990 Iraq invasion and war. This tells the story about how one man managed to save them all and bring them back to the safety of India. This was an epic movie and well done. It is two hours long and does take some time to get through but totally worth it. What gets to me is we watch these kinds of movies and it shows us how we are the same and no matter where we come from our backgrounds our religious beliefs why can we still not see each other as one family. Why does it take tragedy or war for us to wake up to see that we are all part of one human race. Watch the movie and hopefully you will be touched by a powerful true story about what humanity is capable of from both sides. See more 01/12/2017 The first thing you notice about Airlift is that Akshay Kumar no longer plays the role of a buffoon. His career has always been a study in contrasts - from juvenile mediocrity like Housefull to hard-hitting, edge-of-the-seat drama like Special 26, no actor in Bollywood has entertained (and disappointed) us quite as frequently as Akshay has. As Ranjit Katyal, a wealthy businessman who dons the hat of saviour during Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, however, Akshay delivers a career-best performance. Director Raja Krishna Menon's new film throws the Middle Eastern crisis of 1990 and the geopolitical dynamics that surround it into sharp relief, following a narrative template that largely mimics that of Ben Affleck's Oscar-winning masterpiece, "Argo". Shops are ransacked, proud skyscrapers are razed to the ground and innocent citizens are ruthlessly murdered in cold blood, and all these take place in broad daylight. Predictable, it falls to our hero to orchestrate what turns out to be the largest civilian evacuation in modern-day history. While the storyline and its execution is predictably routine, where Airlift succeeds is in creating a claustrophic, nerve-racking atmosphere that will leave you gasping on the edge of your seat. The acting is uniformly good throughout the film, save for Inaamul Haq's ridiculously over-the-top performance as an Iraqi war general that wouldn't have seemed so out of place in a B-grade Sajid Khan comedy. His pseudo-Arabic accent gets on your nerves every single time he appears on the screen and is by far the film's biggest weakness. Menon also needlessly injects random songs into the screenplay that not only disrupt the film's narrative flow but also amply demonstrate the need for greater subtlety in Indian filmmaking. Akshay's terrific performance, however, makes up for many of this film's weaknesses. Airlift is a film that attempts to reach stratospheric levels of perfection. As things stand, though, it just about manages to take off, and that it does well. See more Read all reviews

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