Abhishek Anil Kapoor and Sandeep Kewlani’s ‘Sky Force’, starring Akshay Kumar, is a not-bad watch based on a great true-life story
- Trinity Auditorium
- Jan 28
- 1 min read
The USP of India’s first airstrike forms the basis of the film. But what makes it stand out is the moving drama that follows. The rest of this review contains spoilers.
Early on in Sky Force, in a scene set in 1971, Wing Commander Om Ahuja (Akshay Kumar) gets a call about the capture of a Pakistani pilot (played with great dignity by Sharad Kelkar). He goes to the cell where this pilot is being held, and what happens is a pleasant surprise in a genre where we typically see jingoism and chest-thumping. Om says that the pilot may be a prisoner of war, but he is first a soldier. There’s respect. There are barbs, too, but these barbs are traded with dignity. India may be at war with Pakistan, but these two men realise they are doing the same job. Off the battleground – that is, the skies – there is no reason civility cannot prevail. If the scenes with these two are surprising, so is the larger story. It is something you don’t see coming.
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