Airlift OR Neerja

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Posted: 9 years ago

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Airlift😃 Haven't watched Neerja nor i'm going to be get thaaat impressed by Sonam's acting.

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@TheSupreme - Bhukat ab, ek pura page tere pe dedicate kiya maine😆

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Originally posted by: .MissStubborn.
Airlift😃 Haven't watched Neerja nor i'm going to be get thaaat impressed by Sonam's acting.

Your loss.

And it's shameful that you're taking what TheSupreme said so casually. Anyway, carry on!

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Originally posted by: MrsJustinBieber
Your loss.
And it's shameful that you're taking what TheSupreme said so casually. Anyway, carry on!

1- Read the title of the post before quoting me.
2 - Open your mind as well as eyes before terming any of my act.

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Posted: 9 years ago

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Excerpt from a review.

Airlift is somewhat ungracious though towards the actual characters in the real-life drama that took place in 1990. The then foreign minister in the United Front government, IK Gujral, had received a lot of flak for a meeting he held with Saddam after the invasion of Kuwait which culminated in that now infamous photograph of a hug between the two leaders. Politics and diplomacy are always tricky ground and while Saddam's actions
were no doubt condemnable, the fact is that Gujral's visit paved the way for the evacuation detailed in Airlift. The film, however, shows a minister involved expressing helplessness due to his government's instability. This injustice to the Central Government of the time is inexplicable.

There is also the question of why Airlift does not model its protagonist/s specifically on one of the actual people in that entire episode. Those mentioned in various articles include
MP Mascarenhas described by Scroll as the person who "organised the operation, as the airline's (Air India's) regional director in the Gulf & Middle East". The text on screen at the
end of the film mentions a couple of individuals involved, namely a "Mathunny Matthews" and a "Vedi" (that's right, not even
the courtesy of a full name given) without explaining who they were or what exactly they did at the time. Why create a fiction when you could bow to real-life heroes? Why conjure up a name if theirs could have been used? Could it be because a Ranjit Katiyal is who Akshay can play?"

There can never be a comparision between acts of bravery, but here as two films are being compared, I'd choose 'Neerja' over 'Airlift', because of the same points which have been mentioned in this thread and the points mentioned in the above excerpt of a review.

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