Akshay Kumar's latest Bollywood offering 'Airlift', which revolves around the evacuation of Indians from Kuwait during the 1990 Gulf war, took artistic liberties with actual events, the external affairs ministry said on Thursday.

.@AirliftFilm: Great entertainment but rather short on facts :) Here's our take https://t.co/Ik6S9ZLHR6

— Vikas Swarup (@MEAIndia) January 28, 2016

"One, the fact that such a theme has been selected for a film shows how important it is," ministry spokesman Vikas Swarup said in a statement following what he called a lot of queries being received on the role played by the ministry during the evacuation.