The WSU College of Arts and Sciences, The Asia Program, The Department of Foreign Languages and Cultures and The Honors College are proud to sponsor the 1st Bollywood on the Palouse festival. Bollywood films are Hindi films produced in the city of Mumbai in India and are sheer unadulterated entertainment and a powerful global brand. Bollywood films are a fascinating window from which to study India’s culture and its entry into modernity and self-determination since independence. Join us every Tuesday in September as we celebrate recent Hindi cinema. All films are free admission. September 20th, 7:00 PM Airlift 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. Ranjit unknowingly becomes the man who all 170,000 Indians look up to for getting them out safely from Kuwait. Airlift is the story of Indians stranded in Kuwait during this traumatic time. 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. From Amman, 170,000 Indians were brought home by the largest and the most successful evacuation ever attempted by any country, in the history of the world. Over 59 days, the Indian government systematically flew over 488 Air India commercial flights into a war zone to evacuate all 170,000 Indians and safely bring them. Run time: 2 hrs 10 mins