In ‘Sarfira’ Akshay Kumar Fights to Provide Air Ticket at Re 1, Watch Trailer

Mumbai: In the upcoming movie ‘Sarfira’, Akshay Kumar will be seen as former Indian Air Force captain Vir Mhatre who goes to great lengths to start a low-cost airline for ordinary people.

The trailer of Sarfira, a Hindi remake of Suriya’s National Award-winning Tamil film Soorarai Pottru was released on Tuesday.

The two-minute-30-second-long trailer begins with Akshay introducing himself as a man hailing from a village near Jarandeshwar. Although burdened by debts, Akshay’s Vir dreams of starting a new business. He runs from pillar to post with his idea of a low-cost carrier airline. After his idea gets rejected by Paresh Rawal’s Paresh Goswami, who has built India’s largest airline, Vir takes matters into his own hands and starts appealing directly to the masses.

The public becomes intrigued by Vir’s idea of travelling in his airline only at the cost of one rupee. “Main chahata hu ki aam admi aasman chhu sake, sir,” Akshay tells a minister frantically, while he pays no heed.

“I don’t just want to break the cost-barrier for the masses, but also the damn caste-barrier,” Vir says at the end of the trailer while explaining to the media how low-cost aviation is as important as the basic necessities of life.

This movie is directed by National Award Winning director Sudha Kongara. It will hit the theatres on July 12. Sarfira is created by the makers of Airlift, Baby, Jai Bhim, OMG 2 and Toilet: Ek Prem Katha.

The original movie, Soorarai Pottru won several awards at the National Film Awards in 2022. While Suriya won the award in the best actor category, Aparna Balamurali took home the trophy for best actress.