Hindi Airlift (2016)

Airlift is a 2016 Indian Hindi historical drama movie directed by Raja Krishna Menon, starring Akshay Kumar and Nimrat Kaur. The movie follows Ranjit Katyal (Akshay Kumar), a Kuwait-based businessman, as he carries out the evacuation of Indians based in Kuwait during the Invasion of Kuwait by Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. The story of the film is adapted from the real-life story of a Kuwait based Malayali businessman named Mathunny Mathews. The music for Airlift was composed by Amaal Mallik except for one song Dil Cheez Tujhe Dedi (music by Ankit Tiwari) and the lyrics were written by Kumaar. Airlift movie songs are sung by Arijit Singh, Tulsi Kumar, Amaal Mallik, Ankit Tiwari, Brijesh Shandilya, Divya Kumar, and K.K. The movie was released on 22 January 2016.