When Iraq invades Kuwait in August, 1990, a callous Indian businessman becomes the spokesperon for more than 150,000 stranded countrymen.
       It is in this scenario that Ranjit Katyal (played by Akshay Kumar), a wealthy and powerful Indian businessman, who has always seen himself as a Kuwaiti, rather than an Indian, realizes that he no longer wields any influence on the Iraqis, and that he and his family are in as much danger as anyone else. Ranjit unknowingly becomes the man who all 1,70,000 Indian look up to for getting them out safely from Kuwait. Airlift is the story of Indian stranded in Kuwait during this traumatic time. A story of how they, with the help of Ranjit Katyal, managed to survive the Iraqi invasion, and againt all odds traveled a thousand kilometer across the border into Amman, Jordan. From Amman, 1,70,000 Indian were brought home by the largest and the most successful evacuation ever attempted by any country, in the history of the world. Over 59 days, the Indian government systematically flew over 488 Air India commercial flights into a war zone to evacuate all 1,70,000 Indian and safely bring them ...

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