Many Malayalam movies have had plots concerning the Gulf. The movie Take Off throws another angle of Indian nurses stranded in Iraq during its civil war.
Kunchacko Boban and Parvathy play the lead in the film with Fahadh Fazil playing an important character. Dedicated to the memory of late director Rajesh Pillai, it is being made under the banner of Rajesh Pillai Productions by Anto Joseph and Shebin Becker.