Airlift released on January 22, a war thriller movie has earned approximately Rs 54.70 crore at the box office in the country.
“The results speaks for the film. I am very happy with the response and it encourages me to make and be a part of such cinema. These kind of films did not have much prospects when it comes to numbers at the box office,” Akshay told PTI.
The Hera Pheri actor says the commercial success of his newly released film ‘Airlift’ has encouraged him to make more movies based on real life stories. “The box office numbers of this film is more than I could imagine,” he adds. After ‘Special 26’ and ‘Baby’, i was confident about the success of “Airlift”.- Akshay Kumar.
The USP of ‘Airlift’ is its real story. “The fact that it is a real story and very few people knew about it. We brought this story to all, That is the USP,” Akshay said.
The movie is worth watching. The acting, the script everything was perfect. The war sequence was choreographed very well. Airlift’ narrates the story of Ranjit Katyal (Akshay Kumar), a Kuwait-based businessman, who carries out the biggest civil operation of evacuating Indians based in Kuwait during the Iraq-Kuwait war, during the time of Iraq’s President Saddam Hussein.