Hindi Movie Review Airlift - Cast & Crew

Bollywood actress Nimrat Kaur was born on 13th March 1982 in Pilani, Rajasthan, as the daughter of an Indian Army officer. She spent her early childhood hopping from cities to cities due to her father’s job until she lost her father to a terrorist attack in Kashmir in 1994. Her family moved to Delhi after her father’s death and she completed her schooling and college in Delhi itself. 

She moved to Mumbai after completing her college education to find an opportunity in the acting career. She started off with local theatre works and was also a model for print media advertisements then. Her famous plays include ‘Baghdad Wedding’ and ‘All About Women And Red Sparrow’. Even though she had done a role in the 2006 English film ‘One Night With The King’, her Bollywood break came only six years later with the Anurag Kahsyap movie ‘Peddlers’ in 2012. The movie was critically acclaimed and was staged at the prestigious Cannes festival, and Nimrat Kaur’s acting got good appreciation. 

Her next Bollywood film ‘Lunchbox’, which was released in 2013, was a huge success both critically and commercially and she got international recognition for her portrayal of the lonely wife character in the movie. This movie, which told the story of a lonely Indian wife’s friendship with a stranger over letters, was staged in Cannes film festival. Besides movies, she has also endorsed with a few brands and she is the famous ‘Cadbury’ girl from the super hit Cadbury Diary Milk ad. She is presently working with Akshay Kumar on the movie ‘Airlift’, which is scheduled to be released on early 2016.

Priya Seth is an Indian cinematographer working in the Indian film industry. Before foraying into films she spent years in making ad films. The first feature film that she shot for was Raja Menon’s 2009 indie film, Barah Aana. Priya studied economics in college and later took up a six-month course in filmmaking in New York. That was where she realized she wanted to be part of this whole image making exercise and chose cinematography. Starting her career with ad films, her experience of more than 18 years has given her the privilege to work with highly reputed brands like Pears, Parachute, Dove, Café Coffee Day and a lot more. She has assisted director Raja Menon on many of them, her first being for the car company Ford. She has also worked with critically acclaimed actress Nimrat Kaur in one of her music videos. After working with Raja Menon for Barah Aana in 2009, she came on board as a cinematographer for the 2016 super hit movie Airlift almost a year after everyone.

Akshay Kumar was born on 9th September 1967 and his birth name is ‘Rajiv Hari Om Bhatia’. He is a great Bollywood actor who has acted in more than 100 movies. He is also a producer and martial artist. He has won The Filmfare awards a couple of times. He started off his career as an actor in 1990s, where he had stricken with action based movies initially. He has been greatly appreciated for his drama, romance and comic roles. He is considered to be the only Bollywood actor whose net box office collection is 20 million rupees. He has done a lot of dangerous stunts in movies without a body double. This did gain a name for him as 'Indian Jackie Chan'.

Amaal Malik (D.O.B- 16 June 1991) is a music composer and playback singer in Bollywood who hails from a family of highly talented musicians. He is the son of Daboo Malik- a well-known face in the music industry, grandson of Sardar Malik, the brother of singer Armaan Malik and the nephew of the famous music director Anu Malik.

Raja Krishna Menon is a movie writer, director, and producer. He has been in the business for a considerable time now and is someone whose work demands a lot of recognition. Starting his career as an advertisement director, later he moved on to feature films. Menon was born in Thrissur, Kerala and brought up in Bangalore. His childhood days were mainly spent in Kerala. He is the son of veteran Malayalam actor T.P. Madhavan. He did his schooling at The Valley School (KFI) and obtained a Bachelor’s of Science degree with a Chemistry major from Christ College, Bangalore. Though his core branch was engineering, he was mainly involved in the creative aspects of college life. He was a debater, quizzer, and writer; winning many college festival competitions in the process. After finishing college, Menon assisted D. Radhakrishnan, an ad film director, and photographer, while still in Bangalore. He moved to Mumbai in 1993 and 1996, he started managing the business for writer/director Sanjeev Khamgaonkar.

Prakash Belawadi is a famous Indian journalist, activist, TV and film personality, and a theater artist. Born in the erstwhile state of Mysore, now Bangalore, Karnataka, he was born into a family of famous theater artists. Make-up Nani, his father, was a famous theater actor and has acted in many Kannada films as well. Also, he was a famous makeup artist. Bhargavi, his mother, was an eminent Kannada theater personality. His siblings Sujata, Pradeep, and Sudha, are also famous theater personalities. Prakash co-founded the Centre for Film and Drama, Bangalore, and also started Suchitra School of Cinema and Dramatic Arts at the Suchitra Cinema and Cultural Academy campus in Bangalore in 2012.

Ankit Tiwari was born on March 6, 1986 in Kanpur, India. He is a drastically advancing music composer and a playback singer who had given back to back hit albums and songs. He got into the Bollywood Cinema world in the year 2010 until the present. His works are quite impressive and blissful listening to them. Initially, he entered into the film industry as a music director after which he also lingered into playback singing. In the year 2013, he got an award for the music director category. Also, his album contested for a couple of awards in the Filmfare Awards.

Purab Kohli is an Indian model, Video Jockey (VJ) and TV and movies actor. His birth date is 23 Feb, 1979. He had done his schooling in various schools such as The Bishop’s and St Stanislaus in Pune. He also left his dream of becoming a pilot and finally went into modeling. He has been working in the industry since 2003. His first TV show was Hip Hip Hurray that was telecasted on Zee TV in which he played the role of Mazhar. Then he worked in a travel show which was Gone India in which he used to go at many places in India in limited budget and gained popularity from it. He also did work as a VJ for Channel V. After came music show Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Singing Superstar where he hosted the show, besides that he also hosted the show Terra Quiz as well for National Geographic Channel.

Also he had worked in advertisements of various brands like Colgate, Compaq, Castrol, Pizza Hut and various other brands. He had worked in almost twenty movies till date. Bas Yun Hi was his debut film and then Supari, Vaastu Shastra, 13th Floor, My Brother…Nikhil, it got him recognition in the industry after which he got his entrance in the Bhatt camp with movie Woh Lamhe and then in Awarapan he played role of villain Munna. Rock On!! movie character was one of his most acclaimed performances in which he played the role of KD (Killer Drummer) along with names like Farhan Akhtar and Arjun Rampal that got him Special Jury Mention at 2009 Filmfare Awards.  He also worked with Gul Panag in Turning 30 and Fatso! and in his both vibrant roles he charmed the audience for sure. His latest film Jal released in 2014 was based on life a villagers who struggle for water which was also screened at Cannes Film Festival. He also tried his skills in dancing in seventh season of Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa, a dance reality show being telecasted COLORS TV. He also shifted to Goa from Mumbai stating that it’s impossible living in Mumbai due to noise, pollution and traffic.