Cinesprint Magazine February 2016

pecial StOry
look at the tricky subject like
Airlift, so quickly.
Highest of all
Akshay movies
The movie is opened to
positive buzz all over the
world. Within less than a week,
it collected Rs. 100 crores
all over the world. Just in the
domestic market, it managed
to mint Rs. 83.5 crores and
thus registered as the highest
first week grosser among all
Akshay Kumar films.
Not just limiting the applauses
from the regular audience,
even the external affairs
ministry spokesman, Vikas
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Swarup said that, Airlift took
the artistic liberties in the
depiction of the actual events.
He opined that after watching
the film, one would be able
to recollect the role, external
affairs ministry played, in
evacuating Indians from
Kuwait in 1990.
Could not
escape
criticisms
However, no good movie
would generally be able to play
safe, without criticisms. Airlift
is not an exception for it.
After watching Airlift, a few
opined that, the film is similar
to Hollywood’s Oscar award
film ‘Argo’. Though Airlift
makers repeatedly trying to
defend against the argument,
they could not succeed, as
the critics are coming up with
the convincing proofs. In Ben
Affleck’s Hollywood film, the
lead star saves 6 Americans
and in Airilft, Akshay saves
1.7 lakh Indians. Needless to
say, count is nowhere related,
when the plot is same.
However a normal cinema
lover is not concerned,
whether the movie is original
or adopted. They only bother
about the quality. In that
terms, Airlift ranks high, giving