Kaakka Muttai (Crow's Egg)

'Kaakka Muttai' (also know as The Crow’s Egg) is a 2015 feature length film in the language of Tamil (an Indian and Sri Lanken native language) using English subtitles. The story follows two young brothers who are determined to taste the pizza at the new local Pizza chain near their slum. Neither of them attend school and they live with their mother and grandmother who are trying to raise the money to get their father out of jail. The Crow’s Egg is set in the city of Chennai, portraying the inequalities that are continuing to divide modern day India.

'Kaakka Muttai' is a good example of how globalisation is affecting those in poverty. Globalisation is when businesses and/or organisations begin to operate on a global scale, for example, setting up a pizza restaurant in a developing city on the doorstep of the disadvantaged. The two boys, Periya and Chinna, spend their days roaming the streets of Chennai when they come across a new pizza chain and are told that they are not allowed to try it, they become determined to raise the money themselves, but even then, the owner of the restaurant still won't allow them to buy it, even though they have the money. The discrimination they receive because they are labelled as poor and deviant. 'Kaakka Muttai' tackles the increasing problem's of todays capitalist society and portrays the continuous inequalities of India's Caste system. It explores the determination and mind set of the two boys and how an advertisement increases the greed of society; a goal (being to taste the pizza) is sometimes more fulfilling than when it is achieved (tasting the pizza); the boys were disappointed by the taste of the pizza and further realised they were already satisfied with what they had.