Akshay Learns Arabic For Nimrat Kaur Starrer Airlift

Zamir Siddiqui, Mumbai.

Action king Akshay Kumar has chosen peculiar scripts this year mostly relating to serious genre telling the stories of the unsung heroes of our country. Akshay who recently released his film Baby based on terrorism in India, is currently working on Airlift that is based on the real story of world’s biggest human evacuation scheme carried out. 

Akshay Kumar will be seen playing the role of an Indian-Arab Ranjit Katyal who helped a group of people to survive the invasion in Iraq. The film demands Akshay to learn and recite some Arabic dialogues in few scenes. For which the hard working actor has been taking citing lessons in Arab language for the past three years. The versatile actor is learning one of the hardest foreign languages for his role in Airlift starring The Lunchbox fame Nimrat Kaur.

Airlift is the story of Indians stranded in Kuwait during this traumatic time. A story of how they, with the help of Akshay Kumar as Ranjit Katyal, managed to survive the Iraqi invasion, and against all odds travelled a thousand kilometers across the border into Amman, Jordan.

From Amman, 1,70,000 Indians 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 Indians and safely bring them back home.

Akshay Kumar starrer Airlift is directed by Nikhil Advani and Raja Krishna Menon, and is a co-production between T-series, Cape of Good Films, Crouching Tiger and Emmay Entertainment. The film is slated to release on January 22, 2016.