Check Out: Airlift

When Khiladi Kumar turns realistic, the film becomes an absolute delight to watch!

I love and respect the way how Akshay Kumar is treating his career now. On one hand, he is doing films like Singh is Bliing and Brothers that cater strictly to the masses, but on the other hand, he does films like Special 26, Airlift and Baby that pleases both the critics as well as the ordinary movie-goers.

In 2015, he impressed us with a wonderful performance of an ATS officer in Baby, something that the award juries chose to ignore blatantly. It was easily one of the best films of the year, and deserved more accolades that it should have. This year, he gave us Airlift that too, in the first month of 2016. Even though it was released along with a sex comedy which was part of a successful franchise, Kyaa Kool Hai Hum, still it managed to garner the numbers and take on an impressionable lead.

BABY

Director: Neeraj Pandey

Baby was about an elite team of India’s most brilliant officers, led by Akshay Kumar’s Ajay Singh Rajpur, who is entrusted with the task of recapturing dreaded terrorist, Bilal. Their mission takes them to the bylanes to Mumbai to Nepal and finally to Suadi Arabia, where they find out that they can have just more than Bilal. A thriller on the lines of films like Zero Dark Thirty and Argo, Baby brilliantly mixes our concerns for terrorism with our taste for nationalism. Sure, the jingoism does get overboard a couple of times, but then you just can’t take Bollywood out of every film. And also, it features one of the best woman-man fight scenes we have seen in recent years, when Taapsee Pannu takes on Sushant Singh.

AIRLIFT

Director: Raja Menon

Based on the real-life Kuwait mass evacuation of Indians stranded there during the Iraq-Kuwait war, the film follows Ranjit Katyal (Akshay Kumar), a successful industrialist based in Kuwait who earns the favour of the government there. Initially indifferent to the plight of the fellow Indians working in the country, he does a volte face after Saddam Hussein invades Kuwait, and he suffers as a result. Determined to save his family and countrymen at any costs, he does the nearly impossible with the help of a couple of honest bureaucrats and sheer ingenious determination. Airlift is a film that deserves to be told, though using a fictional character to lead a story can be debated upon. The songs definitely act as barriers to the storytelling, but the impact stays nevertheless.

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Source : Bollywoodlife