![]() ![]() Their mother cannot afford the funeral service, so the brothers give her the money that had been meant for pizza. They walk back, dejected, to their slum home to find their grandmother has died. The boys are humiliated, and their friends have caught the whole scene on video on a stolen mobile phone. But when they go back to the pizza shop, they are again refused, and the shop-owner even strikes the older brother down with his hand. Now, they are ready, and walk back into their slum dressed like a million rupees. They buy the food in exchange for the new clothes the rich boys have bought. But ever resourceful, they see two rich boys whose father has forbidden them to buy food from a street vendor. They realize that they will never be let in a clothes shop. ![]() After stealing more coal, they take a bus to the city center. However, when they go the pizza shop shop, they are sent off because of the dirty, ragged clothes they wear. But an adult friend of theirs shows them where they can steal coal from a storage dump, and they are on their way. They collect lumps of coal that have fallen from trains along the railway tracks. They begin the quest to have their first taste of pizza. But the cheese is invisible, having melted, and the resultant "pizza" is rejected by the boys. Their grandmother says she can make one for a fraction of the cost, and looking at the picture in the shop's advertising brochure, she guesses at the ingredients and cooks one on their little stove. When their mother brings an old television home, the boys see a pizza commercial and they tell their mother about the new pizza shop. But they are shocked to hear that a pizza costs 300 rupees. The boys agree to show him the way out, but first he must let them smell the pizza. Then one day, a pizza delivery man finds himself lost in the slum. They and the other slum children are amazed by the shiny new pizza shop. Then, a brand-new pizza shop is opened on the vacant block where the tree once stood. The boys are devastated when the tree where they find crows eggs is pulled down. Their father is in jail for an offense that is not stated and the family has no money because they are paying a lawyer to defend him. The two young brothers live in a Chennai slum house with their mother and grandmother. ![]()
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