Airlift - Hindi movie review

Airlift is about the plight of 170000 Indians stuck in Kuwait when Iraq’s President Saddam Hussein attacked and annexed Kuwait.

It is about one person’s true grit of helping his countrymen escape from a hopeless situation in the war zone.

Ranjit Katyal(Akshay Kumar) is a go-getter and ace negotiator, he hobnobs with the powers that be of Kuwait Royal family and feels and believes himself to be a Kuwaiti then an Indian.

He lives a lavish life with his wife Amrita (Nimrit Kaur – pleasing) and his daughter. All this changes overnight as Iraq invades Kuwait and all his contacts in the royal family have fleed leaving the country to the Iraqi army.

He is desperate to leave the country but the General in charge of Kuwait demands 100000 dollars, mean time seeing the plight of the people of Indian origin in his office and their relatives who have taken refuge in his office he has a change of heart and decides to take the baton in his hands.

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Main Khudiram Bose Hun: Sushant Sahni’s filmy debut

Sushant Sahni plays the character of Praful Chakki in the just launched film ‘Main Khudiram Bose Hun’. The film is based on the earliest freedom struggle sometime around 1890 when the British ruled over India is about the life of Khudiram Bose, the lesser know patriotic leader. 

Praful Chakki is an accomplice to Khudiram Bose. This young teenagers are selected for a mission to eliminate Kingsfort, a ruthless British officer who treated Indians as slaves and the atrocities of this satanic British officer had reached its height.

Praful Chakki is an important character in Khudiram Bose’s life. Praful’s background is that his father was an upright school teacher and a freedom fighter who was mercilessly killed by Kingsfort. This young boy’s sole mission in life is to avenge his father’s death by killing the tyrant.

Sushant reveals a bit about Praful Chakki’s life, “Despite meticulous planning, this duo unfortunately miss the target, and while on the run, Khudiram Bose is captured by the British soldiers, Praful Chakki prefered to end his own life by shooting himself.”

Sushant is from Uttar Pradesh and makes his debut in the filmytown with this film. He was associated with the writer Dheeraj Mishra during the research and scripting of this freedom struggle drama.

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http://www.filmytown.com/main-khudiram-bose-hun-sushant-sahnis-filmy-debut/

Love Shagun is my directoral debut: Saandesh Nayak

Saandesh Nayak is actor turned director. Love Shagun is his debut film as a director, a director without any previous experience in direction, not even as an assistant director.

Saandesh humbly accepts, “I have never assisted any director before, nor attained director knowledge thru academics.”

However, that doesn’t imply that he is a novice in filmy town.

1987 was the year of the stepping stone towards acting when he was a part of theatre in Bhopal. Subsequently there have been numerous Television Serials like Say Salaam India, CID and DD Serials. He has even anchored ETC Seasons.

He has been on TV, theatre and films, and worth a mention is Mansoor Khan’s Josh (2000) which signifies the fact that he isn’t an outsider in Bollywood. He is one of the founders of the Web TV channel – Bumper clap online

Read the full interview at:

http://www.filmytown.com/love-shagun-directoral-debut-saandesh-nayak/