 Airlift is produced by T-Series, Cape of Good, Emmay Entertainment and Abundantia Entertainment.Principal photography starts on 21 February 2015 and the film is scheduled to release on 22 January 2016.Nikkhil Advani's Emmay Entertainment also produced the prison film Lucknow Central directed by Ranjit Tiwari who assisted as an associate director to Nikkhil Advani on D-Day, Hero, Katti Batti, Guddu Engineer and P.O.W.- Bandi Yuddh Ke.