In short order he discovers that the attack was not a minor skirmish. He asks Amrita to take the child away to London for a few days until things cool down. When Kuwait refused and remained defiant Saddam ordered the attack.) At this point Katiyal believes the attack is one of the many minor border skirmishes. (He explains that Iraq and Kuwait have had tense relations: Iraq owes a large dollar debt to Kuwait and Saddam has urged the Kuwaiti establishment to reduce oil supply so prices can rise. Late that evening he receives word that Iraq has attacked Kuwait. He has a large and well appointed mansion in Kuwait, he makes a happy home with his wife Amrita and his sweet little daughter Simu. Katiyal calls himself a Kuwaiti and is generally derisive towards Indians. He is successful and well connected in Kuwait and Iraq. Katiyal is a ruthless businessman who will go to any lengths to make a profit.
A story of how they, with the help of Ranjit Katyal, managed to survive the Iraqi invasion, and against all odds traveled a thousand kilometers across the border into Amman, Jordan.
Airlift is the story of Indians stranded in Kuwait during this traumatic time. Ranjit unknowingly becomes the man who all 170,000 Indians look up to for getting them out safely from Kuwait. It is in this scenario that Ranjit Katyal (played by Akshay Kumar), a wealthy and powerful Indian businessman, who has always seen himself as a Kuwaiti, rather than an Indian, realizes that he no longer wields any influence on the Iraqis, and that he and his family are in as much danger as anyone else. When Iraq invades Kuwait in August 1990, a callous Indian businessman becomes the spokesperson for more than 170,000 stranded countrymen.
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