Ordinary film as a movie lover and above Ordinary as an Indian.

Rating: 7/10 (22 January 2016)

AIRLIFT REVIEW- Want to clear 1 thing at the start only that although i am Akshay Kumar fan my review will be complete neutral. When we all saw the teaser and trailer we all felt like, yes Akki is coming with another Quality movie, patriotic film is coming, award winning film is coming and bla bla bla. In short we were expecting a Classic means our Expectations were high. So even i Watched it with very high expectations and came out of from Theater with at least satisfied face if not Fully satisfied. As we know it is based on true story so no doubts story will be good and all remains to be seen is how makers present it. Movie starts with beautiful locations as Akshay appears in very casual scene. Everything goes casual for 15 minutes 1 songs pasts which looks average and suddenly main story starts. How Iraq attacked Kuwait and killed all local people along with some Indians based there its all the starting of this story. Content was very sensitive but looks very casual on screens and here Film team fails. How all Indians face circumstances and their desperation to escape from everything keeps you immersed in film and Interval appears. Till Interval it looked ordinary film cause we get nothing special to watch till Interval. All weight of expectations comes to 2nd half which is certainly better than 1st half. Then last 10 minutes are full of Goosebumps but only if you are an Indian. And then some available original stills of true heroes of this evacuation story which left us with Patriotic feeling. Still after movie ends i feel like something was missing. Its not that level movie which i was expecting. Something looked spoiled and messed up. Acting- i am happy to talk about 1 of my favorite Actor that he has given excellent performance here. Not saying its award winning though, it was excellent at its particular level. Nimrat Kaur made me her fan now with this movie. Previously saw her in Lunchbox where she acted well but looked ordinary as heroin. But in this movie she improved as an Actor and looked beautiful as heroin too. Certainly she deserves all appreciation as her expression in frightened scenes and in arrogant scenes were fab. Somewhere it looked like she Overtook Akshay. I don't know the name of that guy who played Iraq Officer's role but whoever he is, he has given very very good performance with beautiful Iraqis accent and dialog delivery. So many actors in supporting roles including them and other star cast all were good. Music- music was good but i personally think all songs looked unnecessary in screenplay. All songs were average to good, not a single bad song in album. Songs are good to listen instead of watching in movie. Screenplay- It is the most important part for films like this and it is strictly good as i didn't find anything special or excellent in it. Still i think runtime could been 10 minutes less as movie looked stretched little bit. Cinematography- film shot at beautiful locations and camera scale look lavish. Some scenes in house could have been better as they shot in dim light. Direction- i don't know much about Raja Menon but as per my info he is not that high level quality director so expecting a masterpiece from him is not fair. He did good job but i expected classic direction which didn't happen. With this story Director has to make a Classic film but he failed little bit not fully. Final Words- Overall a good film and another good film in Akki's career. But my expectations were very high so i didn't find it that much good as it should be made. Don't know why but i expected something like Akshay's last year release Baby and if i compare Airlift with Baby then it is 1 Star lesser than Baby. Baby had tight screenplay and classic direction which Airlift had only Good which is not enough. Last year for Baby i said it is First Quality movie of the but i don't think i can say it for now for Airlift. I mean entire movie cannot be judged on its awesome last 10 minutes of climax. So Go and watch it for Akshay Kumar & Nimrat Kaur's fine performances and its Climax which will give you Goosebumps cause it is inspirational tale for us Indians.. 7/10 stars by me :)