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Mar 5, 2022 · The Real story: Kohli known in the ministry as a quiet performer who has served in Kuwait, Moscow and Qatar and is now a Joint Secretary in MEA headquarters in Delhi, was a young third Secretary in the Indian mission in Kuwait when Saddam Hussain’s Iraqi forces invaded Kuwait on 2nd August 1990.
Airlift is a 2016 Indian Hindi-language thriller drama film directed by Raja Krishna Menon starring Akshay Kumar and Nimrat Kaur, that follows Ranjit Katyal (played by Kumar), a Kuwait-based businessman as he carries out the evacuation of Indians based in Kuwait during the Invasion of Kuwait by Saddam Hussein's Iraq which led to the beginning ...
Mar 5, 2022 · Kohli known in the ministry as a quiet performer who has served in Kuwait, Moscow and Qatar and is now a Joint Secretary in MEA headquarters in Delhi, was a young third Secretary in the Indian mission in Kuwait when Saddam Hussain’s Iraqi forces invaded Kuwait on 2nd August 1990.
Set against the backdrop of Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in August 1990, Airlift chronicles the true story of some of the people who rose to the occasion and helped the thousands of Indians stranded in the war zone escape to safety.
Feb 6, 2016 · It is August 1990. Iraq, under Saddam Hussein, has attacked Kuwait. And over 170,000 Indians (an actual figure) are stuck. The film then goes on to show a deserted Indian embassy in Kuwait. All officials have fled, leaving Indian nationals in Kuwait to their own devices.
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What also irked them is that the film portrays the character of MEA joint secretary Sanjeev Kohli as the one, who was initially reluctant to act proactively to bring home thousands of Indians...
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Jan 22, 2016 · The story, based on a true event, is set in 1990 in Kuwait, the time of the Gulf War when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait. The film has Akshay Kumar, playing Ranjit Katyal, a wealthy and powerful Indian businessman, who initially considers himself a Kuwaiti rather than an Indian.
