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The Story Frame
Kaaka Muttai is a Tamil Movie by a debutant director M.
Manikandan who tells the story of two street urchins who longs to savour the
steaming hot pizza one day. They live in a tiny concrete-and-tin dwelling in a
slum in Chennai along with their mother and granny. Like any other children of
their age, they too have their desires and demands - to have a mobile, a TV,
and a steaming hot pizza they happened to see on TV - unaware and least
bothered that both the women in their life can't afford to fulfill their small
but costly demands. Actor Dhanush and filmmaker Vetrimaaran are the
co-producers and Fox Star India the distributor. The film had its world
premiere in the 39th Toronto International Film Festival, September, 2014 and
was released worldwide on June 5th, 2015. It has won a string of awards -
National Film Award for Best Children's Film and Ramesh and Vignesh, the two lead characters were awarded
as Best Child Artists, and Audience
Award at the Indian Film Festival Los Angeles.
Why Kaaka Muttai (Crow's Egg) has a significance as title
and what makes the journey of these street urchins so touching and thought
provoking is something to watch in a nearby theatre, that too with your family
and kids for sure.
Cast: Vignesh (Periya Kaaka Muttai), Ramesh (Chinna
Kaaka Muttai), Iyshwarya Rajesh (Mother),
Joe Malloori (Pazharasam), Babu Anthony (Pizza Spot Owner), Silambarasan (as
himself in a cameo), Ramesh Thilak, Yogi Babu, Krishnamoorthy
Genre: Drama
Language: Tamil (With English Sub Titles)
Story: M Manikandan
Director: M Manikandan
Producers: Dhanush & Vetrimaaran
Production Company: Wunderbar Films & Grass Root Film
Company
Distributed by: Fox Star Studios
Music: GV Prakash Kumar
Film Editing by: Kishore
Cinematography: M Manikandan
Theatre Release: 5th June, 2015
Duration: 109 minutes
Reviewer's Thumb Mark
Kaaka Muttai speaks volumes of the social disparity
through the eyes of Perriya Muttai and Chinna Muttai, the siblings who are the
lead protagonists of the film. It is one of the most realistic film that has
struck the right chord with the mass in India and abroad equally. The film and
its debutant director is being highly appreciated for its wonderful depiction
of the stark reality of life of people who live in the outskirts of the so-called
society. It also shows how the politicians jump into the ring under the garb of
seeking social justice to actually exploit the hapless by forging a nexus with
the police system and the business class. The beauty of the movie is it depicts
the story of each person and their class they represent without being judgmental
and leave the viewers to ponder - who is right and who is wrong. The film doesn't
indulge being preachy but takes us through an experiential journey to look
beneath what we often see daily but fail to see what we need to see and
understand. The movie brings you to cheers and at the same time it leaves you
teary eyed. It makes you to introspect on which side of the fence you are -
with Perriya Muttai and Chinna Muttai or on the other side - where the rich middle
class boy who offers the leftover of his pizza to them. Is it sympathy, empathy
or whether it is our act of making us free from guilt of being just spectators
of the social vices we see and experience around? Perriya Muttai and Chinna
Muttai is still there waiting on the other side of the fence looking at all of
us for an answer.
Kaaka Muttai is a story of two siblings who make their
living by toiling along the railway tracks collecting coal pieces that fall
from the passing goods train. Their life in the slums, their relationship with
other kids in their area, their rapport with their mother and granny, their
ignorance about how hard their mother works to meet both the ends are all so beautifully
captured that you fall in love with the characters and the filmmaker. The
television advertisement that shows the mouthwatering steamy- hot pizza and how
the siblings fall for it. How every act and talk of Perriya Muttai and Chinna
Muttai's life becomes pizza-centric generates laughter but at the same time tugs
your heart.
Ishywarya Rajesh has given a commendable and worth
mentioning performance as a distraught mother caught between too many
responsibilities of life in the absence of her husband who is in the jail's TB
ward, taking care of her septuagenarian mother-in-law, her job and her two
lovely brats.
Manikandan's cinematography is laudable, GV Prakash music
is so apt to the scenes that it moves the viewers, and Kishore is adept in using
his scissors well.
I am reminded what the Noble Laureate Kailash Satyarthi,
an Indian children's right activist and an activist against child labour has
said - "India has hundreds of problems and millions of solutions".
In short, Kaaka
Muttai shall provide us ample protein to ignite our heart and mind so do not
miss it to see what Perriya Muttai and Chinna Muttai have in store for you. Be ready
to get captivated by their stellar performances.
Life Connoisseur Movie Rating: 5/5
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