One man show

Rating: 8/10 (28 April 2020)

Akshay Kumar in his finest role in the last decade after Rustom. His role of Ranjit Katyal from being an arrogant businessman who hates and diminishes India and Indians since he calls himself a Kuwaiti resident learns the value of motherland.
Since the entire movie is riding on Akshay Kumar's shoulders so his character was particularly strong one, from being a businessman to a humiliated person to a refugee leader who constantly communicates with Indian government and devices plans to stranded refugees and leads the people after long hardships from Kuwait to Jordan where Indian government and Jordanian government made preparation to extract refugees with Air India.
Second most strong character was of Major Khalaf bin Zayd portrayed by Inaamulhaq was just amazing. He was believable as an Iraqi major who would mortify Ranjit Katyal every chance he got including taking bribes from him so the Iraqi soldiers would not harm Indian refugees. They were at par with each other respective roles.
There were many other characters like Amrita Katyal portrayed by Nimrat Kaur, Amrit Pal portrayed by Avatar Gill, Tasneem portrayed by Feryna Wazheir, Ibrahim Durrani portrayed by Purab Kohli, George Kutty portrayed by Prakash Belawadi respectively. Also Pawan Chopra as Brij (Indian ambassador in Kuwait) and Kumud Mishra as Sanjeev Kohli, Joint Secretary of MEA. These character weren't given much screen time but their performances were so strong you can neither forget them nor ignore them as lesser characters.
If I say about the cinematography and direction is good. There were few scenes that were nice, like invasion of Iraqi soldiers and firing at houses and architectures, refugees scene where they take shelter in makeshift camp, Iraqi soldiers invading camps for essentials, traveling to Jordan and the last scene where Akshay Kumar's character watches planes take off.
Raja Krishna Menon, Priya Seth one of the few female cinematographer of Indian film industry and other people associated with this film did a great job in making a patriotic film that show the pain and suffering of actual people who went through this dark times.