After watching the Indian epic masterpiece "Baahubali", I was deeply shocked, and I continued my search for Indian movies under my obsession.
"Evacuation from Kuwait" is the true story of a businessman who led 170,000 Indians to self-help and evacuate Kuwait from Kuwait during the Gulf War. On August 2, 1990, Iraq invaded Kuwait and declared Kuwait its 19th province. The Kuwaiti government was overthrown, and the royal family moved to Saudi Arabia. Under the cover of the nest, there is no end to the eggs, and the tragic Kuwaitis are brutally killed by Iraqi soldiers to exterminate humanity. The film shows the cruelty and ruthlessness of war. It turns out that war is not far away from us. One second before singing and dancing, and the lights feasting, the next second may be wiped out in smoke. Iraqi soldiers occupied Kuwait within a day, and embassies and nationals of various countries evacuated back to their home countries. The irresponsible evacuation of the Indian Embassy resulted in 170,000 Indians stranded in the Kuwait war zone and desperately desperate. They are like a group of desperate lambs waiting to be slaughtered. Everyone is in danger. Killings can happen at any time. Waiting for death or fleeing? With so many people, how to escape is a problem.
At the beginning of the film, the protagonist Ranjit and the prince of Kuwait have a friendly negotiation with a partner. Ranjit is a successful Indian businessman who has been doing business in Kuwait. There is no profiteer or business, and Ranjit can dig friends for profit. For Ranjit, business and friendship are very clear, and he doesn't mind admitting that he is a blood-sucking demon. When Ranjit returned home, he attended a friend party with his wife. A cheerful song and dance showed the wealthy and superior life of the Ranjit family in Kuwait. And in the conversation with the driver, he showed his disgust towards the poverty and backwardness of his country, India. For Ranjit, who has integrated into local life, he rejected India's belief that he was a Kuwaiti.
The style of painting has changed sharply. One night passed, and when I woke up, Iraq occupied Kuwait. The government was overthrown and it was discovered that the Kuwaitis was immediately executed on the spot. On the way to the embassy, Ranjit ran into Iraqi soldiers, the driver was killed, and he almost died. He was rescued by the Iraqi major who used to be his escort, and he promised that Ranjit could leave Kuwait with his family. Ranjit returned to the company and prepared to leave. The Indian employees who worked in his company looked forward to him taking everyone away. Seeing the eyes of those helpless employees who pin their hopes on him, Ranjit made the decision to take these employees and their families away, regardless of his wife's objections. The Kuwaiti government has run away. The only thing they can do is to unite and fight to save themselves and return to their homeland. Ranjit came to a friend's supermarket. The optimistic friends thought that the war would end in a few days and the United States would not stand by. Ranjit warned: "Outside this supermarket, no one recognizes you and me. We have no place to stand. All we have is our identity. We are Indians, not Kuwaiti. Together, we are important, we are divided, and we are insignificant. "These heavy and weighty remarks finally moved my friends to unite and face the current predicament.
Through various efforts, Ranjit established an Indian expatriate camp, and finally overcame difficulties and obstacles to rescue the Indian expatriates back to the motherland. When the Indian flag was erected at the airport, the mood of every Indian present was excited, and I was deeply moved-without the existence of a country, how can there be peace in a small family? Patriotism and national righteousness have never been the main principles. At this moment, just like the protagonist's words, children have to find their mothers when they have problems.
The self-help process of the film also highlights the kindness and the beauty of human nature of the protagonist. Among these mixed crowds, there is a Kuwaiti woman hiding in a corner holding her child. Once discovered by Iraqi soldiers, everyone will be implicated. There was a selfish old man in the crowd who kept complaining and had no mercy to ask Ranjit to drive the poor mother out of the car. Just because she is a Kuwaiti, the innocent mother and child who left here will face death. Ranjit took the poor mother into his car and took the risk by himself. A businessman who was originally only profitable showed his kindest and most valuable instinct in the face of the big things.
The plot of the whole film is tense, with ups and downs, one wave after another, making the audience's heart closely follow the progress of the storyline. As such a war-political film, it ruthlessly exposed the procrastination, superfluousness, and inaction of the Indian government's work efficiency. Weak countries have no diplomacy, and if they are backward, they will be beaten. This is an unbreakable truth for developing countries. "We are important to ourselves", so the actor Ranjit found that the government was running away, the embassy was running away, and the people were trapped. He never gave up hope to fight for self-help and was finally rescued.
The last passage of the actor raised the height of the film: until now I will be annoyed by some problems in India, I am still very cynical, but since I boarded the last flight, I have never asked again, I What did my motherland do for me. No resentment, no questioning. It is inevitable that developing countries have problems of this kind, but no matter how bad they are, it is the only place we can rely on and gain a foothold. If this motherland does not exist, the individual will be nothing. In the final analysis, patriotism is actually loving ourselves.
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