Airlift Box Office Collection: Bollywood has become the source of many historic events and epic dramas that have been discussed widely on screen with huge erected sets and lavish looks to bring the same look. Even many tragic stories along with the biopics are currently being made in Bollywood and the audience has been showing a lot of interest in such movies.
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Sanjay Leela Bhansali has been the care of the address of such films and his recent outing Bajirao Mastani which has been the biopic of warrior king Peshwa Bajirao and his girlfriend Mastani. This eternal love story ended up as a massive hit all over which has been produced by Sanjay Leela Bhansali along with Eros International. Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone’s outstanding performances have been well praised all over.
Akshay Kumar has the habit of bringing out innovative films which have patriotic touches. His recent films Holiday and Baby ended up as huge hits after which he has been impressed with the concept of Airlift. Raja Krishna Menon narrated the plot of the film which impressed Akshay on the first go. (Also See: Fitoor Collections)
Airlift Total Worldwide Collections: 175 Crore Indian Rupees
He has given enough freedom to the director to come up with the bound script and Akshay fell in love completely with the script. The movie is about the biggest evacuation in the history of the world which took place in Kuwait. The most surprising thing is that the evacuation has never been discussed in the history.
Airlift happened in Kuwait during Kuwait – Iraq civil war and many Indians lost their homes and they became sleepless without food. Ranjit Katyal, an Indian businessman settled in Kuwait takes the initiative of evacuating 1.70 lakh Indians back to the country and this is how the plot goes.
Akshay Kumar played Ranjit Katyal in the movie and Nikhil Adwani, Monisha Advani, Aruna Bhatia, Madhu G Bhojwani, Bhushan Kumar, Krishan Kumar and Vikram Malhotra produced Airlift on Abundantia Entertainments, Cape of Good Films, Emmy Entertainments, T-Series and Hari Om Entertainments banners. (Also See: Sanam Re Collections)
Airlift released on January 22nd and emerged as the biggest hit of 2016. The movie smashed many existing records of Akshay Kumar’s movies. Airlift is the biggest opener among his movies and the movie crossed Rs 100 crore mark among the domestic circles in just 10 days.
Airlift collected Rs 128.25 crores I 28 days of its box-office run across the country. Airlift has been declared as a huge hit even in overseas.