Priya Gupta (BOMBAY TIMES; February 27, 2015)

Akshay Kumar's Airlift is an entertaining edge-of-the-seat thriller of the biggest human evacuation in the history of the world. It's a story of how one wealthy and powerful businessman Ranjit Katyal (played by Akshay Kumar), who has always seen himself as a Kuwaiti rather than an t Indian, unknowingly becomes the man who finally saves 1,70,000 Indians stranded in Kuwait from the Iraqi invasion at a point in history, and brings them back to India safely. There are points in the film where Akshay is required to speak in Arabic. We have learnt that past three weeks, Akshay has been learning Arabic to get the correct dialect and he has finally delivered his lines in the language. We will wait to test his Arabic once we see the film. Till then, bit-tawfiq (good luck) Akshay.