The Lunchbox
2013 · TMDB 7.4
Directed by Ritesh Batra
A mistaken delivery in Mumbai's famously efficient lunchbox delivery system (Mumbai's Dabbawallahs) connects a young housewife to a stranger in the dusk of his life. They build a fantasy world together through notes in the lunchbox. Gradually, this fantasy threatens to overwhelm their reality.
Why it matters
A mistaken lunch delivery sparks an epistolary romance between a lonely Mumbai housewife and a widowed office worker.
- Runtime
- 104 min
- Released
- 2013-09-20
- Studio
- DAR Motion Pictures
- Country
- France
- Language
- English
- TMDB score
- 7.4
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