Airport (1993 film)

Airport
Airport
	Poster
Directed by	Joshiy
Written by	Gokula Krishnan & Guna; (Dialogue)
Screenplay by	S. N. Swamy
Story by	S. N. Swamy
Produced by	G. Padmavathi
Starring	Sathyaraj; Gautami; M. G. Soman
Cinematography	Jayanan Vincent
Edited by	K. K. Balan
Music by	S. P. Venkatesh
Production; company	Madhu Films International
Release date	9 December 1993;
Country	India
Language	Tamil

Airport is a 1993 Indian Tamil-language action thriller film directed by Joshi and written by S. N. Swamy. The film stars Sathyaraj, Gautami and M. G. Soman. Unlike most Indian films of that time and genre, it has no songs. The film, released on 9 December 1993,^[1] received critical acclaim but underperformed at the box office.^[2]

Plot

Captain Arjun is a pilot, who works in Indian Airlines, but only flies government planes. Once, a Union Minister calls him and tells him that his daughter, who has gone on a tour to the Pakistan border along with her friends, has been kidnapped by terrorists. The Minister asks him to bring his daughter safely, and Sathyaraj agrees to it. He flies a private helicopter to the border to bring her back, and he succeeds. Actually, the girl and her friends are terrorists whose mission is to kill the prime minister, which is the minister's master plan. One of the terrorists unknowingly leaves his passport in the helicopter. This is noticed, and Sathyaraj is arrested by Varma the police officer, since he took the helicopter in his name to transport the terrorists. Sathyaraj's widowed mother and his sister are tortured by the police. Nassar files a case on Sathyaraj for terrorist activity and weapons handling.

Sathyaraj is arrested, spends time in jail and is released after two years. Once, while chasing the minister's henchman in the streets of Delhi, he finds his sister, who was missing after his arrest two years earlier. He learns about his mother's death from Varma, the police officer. Finally, Sathyaraj plans to expose the minister to the public red handed, with the help of Jaishankar, the police I.G. But the situation worsens when the Minister takes Meenu and Captain Arjun's sister as hostages. Finally, Sathyaraj fights and kills the minister and his henchmen in a fight in the desert. The movie ends with Sathyaraj returning as a commercial pilot. They live happily ever after.

Cast

Sathyaraj as Captain Arjun
Gautami as Meenu
M. G. Soman as Senior Minister Krishnamoorthy
Jaishankar
Nassar as Varma
Charle
Sumithra
Suchitra as Uma
Yuvasri
Ponnambalam
Thalapathy Dinesh
Ajay Ratnam
Babu Antony
Lalu Alex
Ajith Kollam
Jagannatha Varma as PM
Vijay Menon as Vijay Menon
Raja Krishnamurthy
Appa Haja

Reception

Malini Mannath of The Indian Express wrote, "Joshi's [..] treatment is skillful. [sic] The script is taut and imaginative."^[3] K. Vijiyan of New Straits Times wrote, "Airport could have been a big hit if it had better music, a little comedy and better photography".^[4] R. P. R. of Kalki criticised the logical mistakes in the film and panned the story as cliched but praised the film for not having songs and concluded by mockingly giving deepest sympathies to Malayalam Joshi, and the second sympathies to fans.^[5]

References

^ "ஏர்போர்ட் / Airport (1993)". Screen 4 Screen. Archived from the original on 27 December 2023. Retrieved 23 February 2024.
^ Sundaram, Nandhu (27 June 2018). "From 'Gentleman' to 'Amaravathi' : Revisiting popular films which released 25 years ago". The News Minute. Archived from the original on 28 December 2020. Retrieved 17 April 2022.
^ Mannath, Malini (17 December 1993). "A pilot's tailspin". The Indian Express. p. 6. Retrieved 7 January 2019 – via Google News Archive.
^ Vijiyan, K. (24 January 1994). "Without songs and comedy, Airport fails to take off". New Straits Times. p. 14. Archived from the original on 23 May 2024. Retrieved 23 February 2024 – via Google News Archive.
^ ஆர். பி. ஆர். (2 January 1994). "ஏர்போர்ட்". Kalki (in Tamil). p. 31. Archived from the original on 23 February 2024. Retrieved 13 February 2023 – via Internet Archive.

External links

Airport at IMDb

[1] "ஏர்போர்ட் / Airport (1993)". Screen 4 Screen. Archived from the original on 27 December 2023. Retrieved 23 February 2024.

[2] Sundaram, Nandhu (27 June 2018). "From 'Gentleman' to 'Amaravathi' : Revisiting popular films which released 25 years ago". The News Minute. Archived from the original on 28 December 2020. Retrieved 17 April 2022.

[3] Mannath, Malini (17 December 1993). "A pilot's tailspin". The Indian Express. p. 6. Retrieved 7 January 2019 – via Google News Archive.

[4] Vijiyan, K. (24 January 1994). "Without songs and comedy, Airport fails to take off". New Straits Times. p. 14. Archived from the original on 23 May 2024. Retrieved 23 February 2024 – via Google News Archive.

[5] ஆர். பி. ஆர். (2 January 1994). "ஏர்போர்ட்". Kalki (in Tamil). p. 31. Archived from the original on 23 February 2024. Retrieved 13 February 2023 – via Internet Archive.

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