Kaaka Muttai
Kaaka Muttai English The Crows Egg is a 2014 Indian Tamil comedydrama film written, directed and filmed by M Manikandan. Jointly produced by Dhanush and Vetrimaaran and distributed by Fox Star Studios, it features newcomers, Vignesh and Ramesh, in the lead roles alongside Iyshwarya Rajesh. And has music composed by G V Prakash Kumar.
In a tiny concreteandtin Chennai home in the slums live two young brothers with their mother and grandmother. With the boys father in prison for unknown reasons and with an ageing motherinlaw, the mother does her best to keep the kitchen fires burning. The brothers spend their time playing games and stealing and devouring eggs from crows nests. Their love for these eggs leads them to start calling themselves Crows Egg the Elder and Crows Egg the Younger.The young boys constantly beg their mother and grandmother for toys they cant afford, and later for a television. They dont yet understand that the two women cant give them everything they want. When their mother and grandmother finally do bring home a television a gift from the government to ration card holders who live below the poverty line its like the opening of a portal. The boys see a pizza commercial on TV whose steaming, slowmotion images make the unfamiliar food look like manna from heaven. Meanwhile a brand new pizzeria comes up in the neighbourhood, and actor Simbu comes to its opening. Remembering the looks of enjoyment on Simbus face when he tasted a pizza at the pizzeria, the boys thereafter think of nothing else but getting their first taste of a pizza. ........
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