Well, we are talking about a scene from a movie, but what's real here is Akshay Kumar's tears - glycerine free.

He was shooting a scene for his next film Airlift,where the Indian flag was raised as the first flight took off from Kuwait with Indian evacuees, post Saddam Hussein's invasion. We know that Akki is a toughie from the outside, but during this shot he was so swept with emotion that he cried without any glycerine.

Akshay recalls the time when Kuwait was invaded in August 1990 and he was awaiting the release of his debut filmSaugandh.He wasn't aware that such a huge number of Indians were brought back in an operation of 488 flights in 59 days. The actor says, "So when I heard about it, I was like... 'Did this really happen?' I also learnt that considering the international geo-political situation prevalent then, our government ensured it didn't make headlines.While playing my character, I could feel what Indians were going through at that time."

Bollywood artistes raising their voice against intolerance have an unlikely - and perhaps unwelcome - ally from across the border.

A Pakistani filmmaker whose film got an award last year at a film festival in Delhi has joined the award waapsi bandwagon, but that may well trip the participation of other Pakistanis this year.

Whether India is a tolerant country or not has seemed to have piqued the interest of the Pakistani film fraternity now, with a Pakistani director joining India's so-called #awardwapsi gang. It's not certain what Khalid Hasan Khan was trying to achieve when he returned the award given to him at Delhi International Film Festival (DIFF) last year for his filmHotal, in protest against the 'growing intimidation of Bollywood stars in India'. However, he has probably managed to get all Pakistani filmmakers and their films left out of the festival this year. With the fourth edition of the festival about to start in a few days, officials are now left wondering, what if they award other Pakistani artistes this year and they too return it?