Mumbai: Actor Akshay Kumar’s recent outing “Airlift” is riding high at the box office. The movie managed to cross Rs 130 crore club with the positive word of mouth and good reviews. The movie is centered around the evacuation of Indians from Kuwait during the 1990 Gulf war.
The External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Vikas Swarup said, “One, the fact that such a theme has been selected for a film shows how important it is.”
He said, “We at the ministry of external affairs consider the protection of Indian citizens abroad as among our foremost responsibilities.”
“Second, this is a film. Now, films often take liberties with actual events, with facts and this particular film has also taken a lot of artistic liberties in the depictions of the events that actually happened in Kuwait in 1990,” he added.
He said, “I myself can vouch for this as I myself was on the frontline of evacuating Indians from Kuwait who were coming to Turkey via Syria.”
“Third, those of you who may not remember the 1990 evacuation will certainly remember the more remember the more recent evacuations that the ministry of external affairs had coordinated from Iraq, from Libya, from Yemen and from Ukraine,” he added.
Mr Swarup also tweeted that the film was “great entertainment but rather short on facts”.
Directed by Raja Krishna Menon, “Airlift” stars Akshay Kumar and Nimrat Kaur in lead roles.
