{"id":11781,"date":"2016-01-13T12:37:35","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T12:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2016\/01\/13\/airlift\/"},"modified":"2016-01-20T16:51:44","modified_gmt":"2016-01-20T16:51:44","slug":"airlift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2016\/01\/13\/airlift\/","title":{"rendered":"Airlift"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>VUE&#8217;s Manish Gajjar Shares His Film of The Month<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"184\" src=\"http:\/\/theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/vue-0116-467x184.jpg\" width=\"467\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>This feel good thriller is based on real life incident which happened when Suddam Hussain invaded Kuwait in 1990.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Whilst the Royal family managed to flee to Saudi Arabia living behind a country without a ruler, a total of 170,000 Indians based in Kuwait lost all that they had &#8211; their home, money and much more.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>It is during these trying times that a wealthy businessman Ranjit Katyal decides to help evacuate thousands of Indians to the neighboring country Jordan.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Over 59 days, the Indian government systematically flew over 488 Air India commercial flights into a war zone to evacuate and safely bring them back home.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Airlift is an uplifting and entertaining edge-of-the-seat thriller yet patriotic and deeply moving depicting the biggest evacuation ever witness by mankind.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The film stars Akshay Kumar in the lead role who is already riding high from his box office success of Baby.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Actress Nimrat Kaur who appeared in the acclaimed film Lunchbox plays Akshay\u2019s wife in the film. According to the director he needed someone with a strong persona and Nimrat fitted the bill perfectly.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The film has been shot on a lavish scale on various locations including Gujarat, United Arab Emirates and Rajasthan to depict 1990\u2019s Kuwait and Baghdad.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Every minute detail was recreated to add realism to the film. For example a mansion, complete with Arabic carpets and interiors resembling a wealthy Middle-Eastern house was created for the shoot where the character Ranjit Katyal resided.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Even Akshay has gone that extra mile by learning Arabic so that he can deliver his lines accurately with the right pronunciation.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Airlift is a tense film but the director has been able to add song sequences which fit perfectly well with the film\u2019s narrative and do not break the tension which the story depicts.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>On the whole Airlift is an epic tale based on real life experiences and triumph of the human spirit set against the backdrop of war. A definite must-see! \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VUE&#8217;s Manish Gajjar Shares His Film of The Month &#13; &#13; This feel good thriller is based on real life incident which happened when Suddam Hussain invaded Kuwait in 1990. &#13; &#13; Whilst the Royal family managed to flee to Saudi Arabia living behind a country without a ruler, a total of 170,000 Indians based [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,106,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-desixpress","category-film","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}