This short story is about a malaysian indian middle-class man who eagerly wanted to enter the corporate world which is his long time goal by becoming a film actor.Karuppu(Black) coffee is the resemblance of the negative part of the characters in the whole story.Basically,there's no good and bad characters in this story which is the main idea of this story.Selfishness,Self-pride,inferiority complex and judging someone with their appearance and outfits are the some of the characteristics in these story to make the readers feel irritated and realise how much impact it's ruining our daily lives.
This story is written is tamil and tamil/english medium for non-tamil readers but for tamil audience which tamil audience is the main target of the writer.