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The Lunchbox
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.
2013 · Directed by Ritesh Batra · 104 min · Drama · Romance · 17 frames
Tagline
Can you fall in love with someone you have never met?
Crew
- Screenplay: Ritesh Batra
- Cinematography: Michael Simmonds
- Edited by: John F. Lyons
- Music: Max Richter
- Production design: Shruti Gupte
- Produced by: Arun Rangachari, Anurag Kashyap, Guneet Monga
Cast
- Irrfan Khan as Saajan Fernandes
- Nimrat Kaur as Ila
- Nawazuddin Siddiqui as Shaikh
- Lillete Dubey as Ila's Mother
- Nasir Khan as Ila's Father
- Bharati Achrekar as Mrs. Khrishnan
- Nakul Vaid as Rajeev
- Yashvi Punneet Nagar as Yashvi
- Denzil Smith as Mr. Shroff
- Shruti Bapna as Meherunissa
Production
- Country: France, Germany, India, United States of America
- Language: English, Hindi
- Studios: DAR Motion Pictures, A.S.A.P. Films, Sikhya Entertainment, National Film Development Corporation of India
- Budget: $3,400,000
- Box office: $17,240,000
- Themes: housewife, mumbai (bombay), india, food, tiffin, indian cuisine
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