Filmworld
'Airlift' team promotes film at Air India office

New Delhi, Jan 19
The team of the forthcoming film "Airlift" -- which delves into the evacuation of Indians from Kuwait during the 1990 Iraq-Kuwait war -- paid a promotional visit to the office of airline company Air India, which played a crucial role in evacuating a record-breaking number of people during the war.
Actor Akshay Kumar with co-star Nimrat Kaur and "Airlift" director Raja Krishna Menon visited the Air India office and shared with officials the story and essence of their movie, which is releasing on Friday.
While the "Airlift" team posed with an "Art Collection" book of Air India, the airliner's CMD Ashwani Lohani gifted a memento of an Air India plane dummy to the stars.
According to the film's poster, the airline company had helped in evacuating 1,70,000 people through 488 flights during the war. Air India had even entered the Guinness Book of World Records for the most people evacuated by a civilian airliner with this feat.
Actor Akshay Kumar with co-star Nimrat Kaur and "Airlift" director Raja Krishna Menon visited the Air India office and shared with officials the story and essence of their movie, which is releasing on Friday.
While the "Airlift" team posed with an "Art Collection" book of Air India, the airliner's CMD Ashwani Lohani gifted a memento of an Air India plane dummy to the stars.
According to the film's poster, the airline company had helped in evacuating 1,70,000 people through 488 flights during the war. Air India had even entered the Guinness Book of World Records for the most people evacuated by a civilian airliner with this feat.

4 minutes ago
Veteran Communist leader and former Kerala CM VS Achuthanandan passes away at 101

1 hour ago
Hansal Mehta calls cancelation of the MAMI Mumbai Film Festival 2025 'a cruel irony'

1 hour ago
Makers of Pawan Kalyan's Ustaad Bhagat Singh urge netizens not to share leaked pictures of film from set

1 hour ago
Asha Bhosle treats Anup Jalota with homemade kebabs, offers blessings

1 hour ago
Rashmika Mandanna: For me, fragrance is memory

1 hour ago
Mouni Roy on ‘Salakaar’: Every scene required careful attention to nuance, depth

1 hour ago
My next film is with Dhanush, says Mari Selvaraj

1 hour ago
‘Gym girl’ Soha Ali Khan says ‘muscles and mascara both stay on’

1 hour ago
Vidya Balan kickstarts Monday morning with ‘head scratching’ riddle

1 hour ago
Bangladesh Air Force jet crashes into Dhaka school building

1 hour ago
Andhra Pradesh, Telangana CMs congratulate Chess champion Koneru Humpy

1 hour ago
One killed, 9 injured as landslide hits Mata Vaishno Devi shrine track

1 hour ago
Mamata Banerjee pays tribute to Pahalgam terror victims and slain soldier at TMC’s Martyrs’ Day rally