It all started when Shameer happened to listen to an oft-used Malayalam proverb — Kakka Kulichal Kokkakumo?’ (Can a bath turn a crow into a stork?). Realising that the proverb was quite racist in its literal meaning, Shameer decided to create a short out of it and give the crow a ‘voice’.
“Man has created all these idioms and proverbs based on animals and I kept wondering what the animals would have to say about their species being dragged into these negative images. So there was the crow, and then I remembered the caged parrot that is forced to pick tarot cards,” says 31-year-old Shameer, who hails from Kulamuttom near Varkala, Thiruvananthapuram.
