![]() ![]() A number of characters that we enjoyed in Ranjith’s The filmmaker delivers sequence after sequence - filled with nuance and sensitivity - about everything that affects lives of the poor. The entire film is set in motion after the kids, taken in by celebrity endorsement develop a desire to eat pizza, unquestionably a symbol of capitalism in India, to discuss the problem of urban poverty, social exclusion, economic apartheid and deprivation. The oppressive nature of poverty and economic exclusion is examined through the eyes of two endearingly smart kids, who simply call themselves, ‘Periya Kaaka Muttai’ and ‘Chinna Kaaka Muttai’. Kaaka Muttai is that film, which provides a panoramic view of poverty: where the self-assurance that ‘if you work hard you will succeed in life’ doesn’t make any sense where people’s homes end, and when they are forced to sleep next to the toilet, only separated by cloth screen that everyone - kids, young, middle aged and old - have to perform hard labour to scrape through the day that the politicians speaking the language of emancipation and social justice often exploit the poor for profits that they cannot escape being marked as ‘slum kids’ or as ‘lower caste’ by the society, and face violence as a part of daily life. But, can you fathom how one could crawl through an entire day? ![]() We understand poverty mostly as a statistic: that 827 million Indians live on less than Rs. Storyline: Two poor kids want to eat a slice of pizza and confront a society which doesn’t let them have it.
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