Nimrat Kaur shares pics with Akshay Kumar, celebrates 10 years of ‘Airlift’

As her film “Airlift” completed a decade in Hindi cinema on Thursday, actress Nimrat Kaur celebrated the moment and said that it was 10 years ago, “this celluloid magic happened”. Nimrat took to Instagram, where she shared a string of images from the shoot of “Airlift” along with her co-star Akshay Kumar and the other cast and crew of the film.

“10 years ago today, this celluloid magic happened. The music, the moments, the love just keeps growing - as does my gratitude!!”

Airlift was a political thriller film directed by Raja Krishna Menon starring Akshay Kumar and Nimrat Kaur, that follows Ranjit Katyal, a Kuwait-based businessman as he carries out the evacuation of Indians based in Kuwait during the Invasion of Kuwait by Saddam Hussein’s Iraq which led to the beginning of the Gulf War.

The plot is adapted from the real life story of Kuwait-based Indian businessmen such as Mathunny Mathews from Kerala and Harbhajan Singh Vedi. The film was a commercial success, it emerged as a blockbuster at Indian as well as abroad box office.

Nimrat began her career as a print model and went on to act in theater. She starred in Anurag Kashyap’s production Peddlers in 2012. The actress followed it with her breakthrough role in the critically acclaimed drama The Lunchbox in 2014 starring the late Irrfan Khan.

In 2015, she played the recurring role of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agent Tasneem Qureishi in the fourth season of the American television series Homeland, and later reprised her role in its eighth season. She then starred in the American mystery series Wayward Pines and the Indian drama series School of Lies. She was most recently seen in the third season of the series ‘The Family Man’ created by Raj & DK. It features Manoj Bajpayee as Srikant Tiwari, a middle-class man secretly working as an intelligence officer for the Threat Analysis and Surveillance Cell (TASC), a fictitious branch of the National Investigation Agency.

Meanhwile, Nimrat on Friday paid a heartfelt tribute to her late father, Major Bhupender Singh, marking 32 years since his martyrdom while serving the nation. Remembering him as a “self-made son of the soil” and a fearless soldier, Nimrat took to Instagram and shared that her father lived and laid down his life with unmatched courage and dignity.

“It’s been 32 years since Papa left us in service of the nation. A self made son of the soil, a peerless husband and father, and beyond everything, a lion-heart soldier who feared nothing, not even death we were told, in his final moments,” Nimrat wrote in the caption.

The actress shared a string of images and expressed gratitude to the Indian Army and the administration for immortalising his name in Ganganagar, where he was born, and in the Kashmir Valley, where he attained martyrdom. “Forever grateful to the Indian Army and the administration to have immortalised Papa’s name on the soil he was born in Ganganagar and where he breathed his last in Kashmir valley.”

Indo-Asian News Service