Bhubaneswar: For this 19-year-old girl from Jagatsinghpur district stuck in Andhra Pradesh, Odia film actor Sabysachi turned out to be a godsend.
Mamuni’s family is a poor one. Her father used to run a vegetable shop in Jagatsinghpur town and with meagre earnings; he had somehow been managing the family expenses.
Suddenly things turned topsy-turvy in 2018 when her father developed some health issues making him unable to run the shop.
Then the entire burden of meeting the family expenses and father’s medicine cost fell on the untrained and young shoulders of Mamuni. Finding it difficult to run the family’s expenses, the girl made up her mind to venture outside the state to look for earning avenues.
With the help of an acquaintance, she went to Bapatla in Andhra Pradesh. Reaching there, she soon realised that her plans of earning for her father’s treatment and her family’s expenses were a far cry from reality.
Mamuni’s life turned out to be hellish as she was subjected to mental and physical torture at her work place. At a time when she was thinking about possible ways to escape from the clutches of her employer, the coronavirus-induced lockdown came as a hindrance, making her life more miserable.
One morning she found her clothes and mobile phone missing. Later, she discovered that her coworkers had stolen them. Many such disturbing spate of events made it difficult to sustain her life there.
The saying ‘the darkest hour is just before the dawn’ proved true for her when Odia actor Sabyasachi came to know of the incident and chipped in to help her.
After getting a phone call from Mamuni’s mother, he listened to her. Luckily, the actor had a friend named Sambasiba Rao, originally from Bapatla but staying in London, whose help he sought to free Mamuni from the clutches of her tormenting co-workers.
The actor sought the help of Bhubaneswar traffic DCP Sagarika Nath who contacted Bapatla police station to make her reach Bhubaneswar safely.
Seeing her mother at Bhubaneswar railway station, Mamuni could not help get emotional. Before leaving the station for her village, she did not forget to thank Sabyasachi, who was also at the station, for rescuing her from a den of vice and giving her a new lease of life.
Notably, Sabyasachi had earlier turned a messiah for thousands of helpless people who were left stranded in different parts of the country during lockdown.
PNN