MEA hopeful of early release of Indians stuck in Russia

The Indian government has been in touch with the Russian authorities for the early release of Indians stuck in Russia after being duped into fighting against Ukraine, a Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson said on Thursday.

Three people from Anchuthengu were tricked into joining the Russian army by fraudulent travel agents. Two Keralites were contacted by the Indian Embassy officials and are awaiting clearance to fly back to Kerala.

Unimaginable are the ways in which adversities can reshape a human being. The physical transformation is the most obvious of these. But, Blessy’s Aadujeevitham — based on the reallife story of a man who ends up living in slavelike conditions in a goat farm in the middle of a desert — deals with much more than this.

For instance, it is interesting how the film treats the illfated man’s struggles with language. Initially, when Najeeb (Prithviraj Sukumaran) lands up with a younger compatriot at a Saudi airport, one sees him struggling to communicate in any language other than Malayalam. This also has a huge role to play in the unfortunate turn their life takes afterwards.

Later, after years of herding goats and camels in the farm, and with no human interaction (other than the abusive words from his ‘owner’), he loses the only language he knew, almost bleating like a goat when he sees his longlost friend.

Aadujeevitham, which otherwise is mostly filled with extreme suffering and heightened emotions, has a few such delicate touches. One of the others being an emaciated Najeeb finding enough time to savour a bath after long years, in the small window of time that he got to escape from the farm.