5 Things you didn’t know about Akshay Kumar’s Airlift

We have set our eyes on Airlift on Jan 22^nd, to be one of the biggest films of 2016.  Airlift cannot be bracketed in any genre, the film being inspired by true events of our nation.

Akshay Kumar breaks the cliché mold yet again with a patriotic mainstream film with a message to sensitize our nation towards the victims of the Kuwait war and fill them up with national pride.

Here are quick 5 facts you need to know about Airlift

• 1    This story dates back to 1990, when India airlifted 1,70,000 Indians amid the attack on Kuwait by Iraq.  Iraq invaded Kuwait for stealing its petroleum through slant drilling.

• 2.       Apparently, it was Saddam Hussein, the then president of Iraq, desicion to invade Kuwait

• 3.       Air India & Indian Airlines came in support of 1,70,000 Indians with around 488 flights arranged for the biggest human evacuation

• 4.       This act by India has been recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records

• 5.       Akshay Kumar thinks this historic episode should make it to Indian Textbooks 

We are excited for the Big Release and can’t wait to see our nation as the HERO, yet again! Do catch the film in cinemas on 22^nd Jan.