Bramhadev Chaudhary, father of Sandeep (Below), with friends and neighbours outside his Chembur residence. Pics/RAajesh Gupta

Dreams of being Merchant Navy sailors took two Mumbai friends across the sea to Malaysia, but it ended up being their worst nightmare — one of them died eight days ago and the other is stuck there with no job or food, hungry, homeless and alone, desperately trying to
come back.