Raja Krishna Menon's Direction is decent. Editing is mostly crisp, although the first-hour is slow-paced! Background Score is top-class. Performance-Wise: Akshay Kumar delivers a committed performance, enacting the heroic protagonist with honesty. Its his performance that acts as a major plus point to this otherwise ordinary film. Nimrat Kaur is okay. Purab Kohli is very good. Kumud Mishra is terrific, as always. On the whole, 'Airlift' works in parts. A great opportunity, lost!
Without spoiling the movie, too much; while, this rescue operation film is not as good, as 's 'Schindler's List' or 's 'Hotel Rwanda', or even 's 'Argo', it was still a good movie, worth seeing even if it has some highly embroidered and fictionalized accounts of true events. After all, there is way too many films that, often take too much artistic liberties with actual events, making it somewhat offensive and jarring to watch. However, this particular film does not.
Yes, it takes a few artistic liberties in the depiction of events, but most of them, actually works to make the depiction, much better. Still, there is somethings, worth noting that would need, so work.
First off, the idea that, all of this planning was done, under one man's control. As much as I love, Akshay Kumar's performance as the fictional character of Ranjit Katyal and his character arch, from ruthless, selfish, greedy businessman to extraordinary Good Samarian whom initiative, tenacity and dedication help save the lives of many of his fellow country-men.
After all, it's seem too unrealistic for one man to plan out, all this. If anything, this movie should be call something else, as only the last 20 minutes is, about the airlift.
Plus, in my opinion, the title gives away, too much of the end. I know, history movies are predictable, but gees, the suspense for this film is kinda ruin, when the title spells it out for you. Anyways, the airlift events, didn't just happen, during one or two days, like the film wants you to think.
It was carried out from August 13, to October 20, That's a lot period of time, staying in Jordan. Another thing, I was wondering, when watching this film, was, how the whole evacuation plan can happens without the India's government active support.
The film makes it, seem like the Ministry of External Affairs was little to no help; when in truth, it's the government that coordinating with the different groups and worked with the governments of Jordan and Iraq in having safe passage for the Indians.
Plus, it's the government that work with Saddam Hussein, in making sure, they were protected, until the evaluation were over. For the most part, Indians in Kuwait, were allowed to buy food and continue their lives, as if the war didn't really started. I get that, a lot of things like this was omitted, because the filmmakers wanted added to heighten the dangers, but the idea of them, running out of food is a bit silly.
Only non-essential staff and of course families would have been evacuated in real-life. The ambassador and his core team would have stayed on, as they did, based on the ambassador's account of the events.
It's funny to see Ambassador, KP Fabian who was Joint Secretary of the Gulf at the time of the Kuwait war, being throws in very different light by this film, by being completely omitted, when in truth, he did a lot to help the Indians come home. Despite that, the war movie directed by Raja Krishna Menon is pretty decent. Still, some of cinematography by Priya Seth, does need some work.
During some scenes, it was really hard to figure out, what certain characters were looking at, or what, the viewer was honestly seeing. It was a bit jarring to see some modern UAE United Arab Emirates backgrounds, that doesn't look like, it's Middle Eastern building style nor from that time period. Another thing, a bit off, was the violence. It was surprising, very tame for a war movie.
I like, nearly every character, they show here, but still, they did, make the fictional supporting characters of George Kutty Prakash Belawadi a little bit too unlikeable for my taste and Major Khalaf Bin Zayd Inaamulhaq , too campy to be taken serious as a villain.
Despite that, the music choice wasn't too off. Overall: While, the movie does have some flaws. The good things about it, surly out weight the bad. Airlift indeed lift the bar, a little higher for Bollywood. As a Non-Indian American, I can't wait to see, what type of film, they would think up, next. Airlift is worth seeing. There is a lot being written and read about Akshay Kumar in the media lately. This film is a standing testament that he deserves that. India-born Kuwaiti businessman Ranjit Kumar finds his whole world turn upside down after he is caught unawares in the middle of cranky Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.
Already frantic enough to manage his own three-member family's escape to India, Ranjit finds that a mass of Indians, with no one else to turn to, is pulling at his sleeve for help. The story is basically about his, his family's, and his fellow compatriots' struggle to leave the warzone amid rising tension from all sides. The story is told rather nicely, minimizing the bloodshed but staying realistic at the same time. It's no doubt an extraordinary tale, and the writers manage to make it gripping, and even jaw-dropping at one, maybe two, instances.
Of course, the exodus story is too good to be true, but when you KNOW that it is truly based on a real life event and few hearts did beat for almost a quarter million people's rescue mission, you automatically get the idea, and begin to realize the importance of telling such a story.
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This is not a "disappointing kids' flick", it's a reminiscence and an hommage to one of Germany's most successful youth book series by Rolf Kalmuczak. Once you realize that the whole movie is mixing up everything TKKG lived through since being first published in , you will enjoy the love to details and style.
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