India Today | Akshay Kumar on Airlift: What India had done in 1990 is not a matter of joke India Today Directed by Raja Menon, Airlift is about those 1,70,000 Indians stranded in Kuwait when Saddam Hussein invaded the country in 1990, and kick-started the Gulf War. Apoorva Nijhara · Apoorva.Nijhara@intoday.com. New Delhi, January 19, 2016 | UPDATED ... |