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Akshay Kumar says it's insulting to compare 'Airlift' with 'Argo'

The Ben Affleck film chronicled the evacuation of six Americans, while Airlift' is the story of 1,70,000 Indians rescued from Kuwait.

By :  arka sengupta
Update: 2016-01-19 06:35 GMT
Akshay Kumar's upcoming Airlift' shares the same genre as Argo' but the superstar says it is an insult to his film when people compare it to the Oscar-winning Hollywood movie, as the story is inspired by a real incident. Photo: Viral Bhayani
The actor also said that he loves to keep challenging himself with different roles. “I keep on challenging myself all the time. I want to be in my comfort zone and then try some roles which are challenging for me. Singh is Bliing' and Housefull 3' are in my comfort zone but this one is not, Baby' was not.”
In the film, Akshay plays a businessman Ranjit Katyal, who negotiates with the government to evacuate 1,70,000 Indians stranded in Kuwait and fly them to India. 'Airlift' also stars Nimrat Kaur and Purab Kohli.
The actor says he was not aware of the 1990 incident and only came to know about it when the director gave him the script. “At that time there was only one article about the evacuation. The government did it silently. It is not a matter of joke. When I met those people, they started crying at the mention of it. I was deeply inspired by the story. It shows the greatness of our country.”
Director Raja Krishna Menon says other than the common theme of evacuation, there is no similarity between his film and the 2012 Hollywood movie. “The only faint link is that some people were saved in a covert operation. Everything else is different. It is only a similar genre. Our film is about the single greatest achievement of independent India. Argo' is not in that space,” Menon said.
“Saying that our film is copied from Argo' is an insult. How can it be a copy when it is a true story? It is not a copy. It is something which you should be proud of. It is the story of the biggest ever human evacuation in the history of mankind,” Akshay told reporters at their press.
The Ben Affleck film chronicled the evacuation of six Americans, while Airlift' is the story of 1,70,000 Indians rescued from Kuwait.

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