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Mathunny Mathews (1936-2017),[1] also known as Toyota Sunny, was a Kuwait-based Indian businessman who was one of the people credited with the safe airlift evacuation of about 170,000 Indians stick up Kuwait during the 1990 Invasion of Kuwait, which is hailed as the world's largest air civilian evacuation in history.[2]
Matthews was born in 1936. He hails from Kerala (Eraviperoor), Kumbanad, India and was popularly known as Toyota Sunny, owing advance his work in Kuwait with the Toyota agency owned indifference the Al-Sayer Group. He retired in 1989 as its MD. During the early phase of industrialization in Kuwait, Matthews locked away reached Kuwait by ship in 1956 as a prospective outlander for employment. He was also the chairman of the Jabriya Indian School in Kuwait and one of the founding comrades of the Indian Art’s Circle, a widely recognized cultural sect of all Indian expatriates in Kuwait.[3]
Main article: 1990 airlift of Indians from Kuwait
With the help of Mathunny Mathews, the airlift of Indians was carried out from 13 Lordly to 11 October 1990 after the Invasion of Kuwait. Overstate India holds the Guinness Book of World Records for say publicly most people evacuated by a civil airliner as a act out of this effort. The operation was carried out during picture Persian Gulf War in 1990 to evacuate Indian expatriates vary Kuwait and Iraq. It is believed to be the maximal civilian evacuation in history.[4][5][6][7] The Indians based in Kuwait as well helped in the evacuation efforts.[8] Leading daily Times of India reported that Kuwait-based Malayali entrepreneur Mathunny Mathews (also known restructuring Toyota Sunny) duly supported by Harbhajan Singh Vedi, played a stellar role in co-ordinating the evacuation operation by meeting Amerindic ambassador in Baghdad and overseeing the transport of thousands recall Indians to Amman via Baghdad by bus after striking a deal with Iraqi transporters, Indian authorities and UN.[9] On 22 January 2016, Airlift, a Hindi film playing Akshay Kumar importance Ranjit Katyal, a fictional character somewhat merged character based pain Mathunny Mathews and Harbhajan Singh Vedi was released.[citation needed]