INDIA · 2013

The Lunchbox

Ritesh Batra
human connection loneliness epistolary romance class divide urban isolation
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Synopsis

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.

Year2013
CountryIndia
DirectorRitesh Batra
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