Akshay Kumar's Airlift took a lot of Artistic Liberties - External Affairs Ministry - Akshay Kumar‘s latest Bollywood offering “Airlift“, which revolves around the evacuation of Indians from Kuwait during the 1990 Gulf war, took artistic liberties with actual events, the external affairs ministry said on Thursday.
“One, the fact that such a theme has been selected for a film shows how important it is,” ministry spokesman Vikas Swarup said in a statement following what he called a lot of queries being received on the role played by the ministry during the evacuation.
“We at the ministry of external affairs consider the protection of Indian citizens abroad as among our foremost responsibilities,” he said.
He said the ministry has done this in the past and would continue to do so in the future as well.
“Second, this is a film. Now, films often take liberties with actual events, with facts and this particular film has also taken a lot of artistic liberties in the depictions of the events that actually happened in Kuwait in 1990,” said Swarup, whose 2005 novel “Q&A” was turned into Oscar-winning film “Slumdog Millionaire” by director Danny Boyle.
He said those who remember the 1990 evacuation “would also know the very proactive role played that the ministry of external affairs played”.
“One, the fact that such a theme has been selected for a film shows how important it is,” ministry spokesman Vikas Swarup said in a statement following what he called a lot of queries being received on the role played by the ministry during the evacuation.
“We at the ministry of external affairs consider the protection of Indian citizens abroad as among our foremost responsibilities,” he said.
He said the ministry has done this in the past and would continue to do so in the future as well.
He said those who remember the 1990 evacuation “would also know the very proactive role played that the ministry of external affairs played”.
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