The cult innocence of the poor brothers who make 10 bucks a day by picking coal off the railway tracks steals your heart. The film exposes you to child labour, politics, media, consumerism yet it does to lecture you. The film does take you on the journey of the brothers and their aging grand mother for the quest of the pizza.
It puts forward to you the social issues we see every day but skilfully avoid. What makes Kaakkaa Muttai appealing as a cinema is its undercurrent and the flows. The rest of the film is a cinematic journey about the brother's quest to eat a pizza. As life would have it, crow brothers lands up to know about Pizza which sells at INR 300 & does what it takes to have a pizza. The crow brother's father is in Jail and their mother works in a factory to meet ends & legal fees for their father's bail. They dnt mind it at all and even call's their slum home as crow's egg's house.Their act is also supported by their grand mother just because she knows that family can't afford the chicken eggs. The story is about two slums kids, brothers, known as elder crow and junior crow as their quest of protein (eggs) makes them steal eggs from the nest and gets them this nick name from the community kids. However, coming back to Kaakkaa Muttai – it puts up a grave social commentary from the angle of a cinema. It was so yuck as a moment that I remember that line even now and writing down today. 'Mongru' had once told me that crow's meat tastes more bitter than Karela(bitter gourd). He used to work as our part time domestic help and always had stories for me, mostly hunting. I profoundly remember his name as Mongru as he befriended me as a child of 5 years old. As you may know there were lots of tribes in India and during one of these childhood visits I meet a young tribal man. I grew up in gateway of North East part of India ad mist the tea gardens of Darjeeling and my maternal family was from one such tea gardens.
I do not know Tamil and this review is based on subtitles. My quest for quality cinema has taken a positive beating due to parenthood but this weekend was a lucky one where I choose to see The Crow's egg -Kaakkaa Muttai. " You can not complete the Indian modern cinema panorama without considering movies from Southern India.
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