But then, the next day, another mouthwatering lunch arrives, this time accompanied by a letter from its maker, a young woman named Ila. At first he thinks the restaurant have found a new chef. His existence is fading into monotony. Then, one day, he receives an unexpectedly delicious lunch carefully packed into its many-tiered dabba or tiffin-box. As a widower, his days are identikit rounds of work, uninspiring lunches delivered by a subscription service, and nights spent smoking on his balcony while watching the cosy conviviality of a family living across the street. After 35 years in the firm, he’s about to retire and the last thing he wants to do during his final month is train up his puppyishly eager successor, the irrepressible Shaikh (Nawazuddin Siddiqui). Saajan Fernandes (Irrfan Khan) is a curmudgeonly wage-slave whose day is spent poring over forms in his company’s claims department. Ila (Nimrat Kaur) studies a reply sent in the lunchbox Her own carefully-prepared lunch went to someone else. Rajeev didn’t receive the lunch she made, but another one. But, when he does, he hardly says a word and, when Ila presses him about his lunch, she realises from his answers that there has been a mistake. He’s liked it! He actually liked it! Hoping that this signals a renewal of their intimacy, she eagerly waits for Rajeev to come home. Rajeev doesn’t even finish the lunches Ila painstakingly makes for him.īut then, one day, the lunchbox comes home licked clean. Ila does her best, dressing in flattering clothes and preparing mouthwatering lunchboxes for him, with plenty of input from Auntie, the old lady upstairs (whom we never actually see she’s voiced by Bharti Achrekar).
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He works long hours and, even when he is at home, he’s either in front of the TV or checking his phone.
In the years since their marriage, Ila (Nimrat Kaur) and her husband Rajeev (Nakul Vaid) have drifted apart. But this charming little film imagines what might happen if they did – and if that mistake accidentally brought two lonely people together. Stay-at-home housewives take pride in sending off a home-cooked lunch for their children or husbands while even unmarried office workers receive lunchboxes courtesy of services offered by local restaurants. The lunchboxes are carried by bike and train into the centre of Bombay and delivered promptly to the workers’ desks just in time for the lunch break then, after lunch, the empty tins are packed away and carried home again. Instead, they benefit from the astonishing system of dabbawalas, 4,000 of whom collect and deliver 160,000 packed lunches every day through the bustling city. Bolstered with winning performances from Irrfan Khan (Life of Pi) and Nawazuddin Siddiqui, first-time director Ritesh Batra has reworked the classic ingredients of the ‘meet cute’ romantic comedy into a disarmingly original concoction to tantalise the taste-buds and warm the heart.In Mumbai, office workers don’t pop round to their local Pret at lunchtime.
But this deceptively simple set-up belies an intelligent, beguiling and understated (no Bollywood songs) drama packed with delicious looking food and delightful insight.
So begins a letter-based romance in the vein of such classics as Shop Around the Corner. A lonely Mumbai office worker receives the wrong packed lunch after a mix-up by the city’s famous dabbawala couriers, and is so impressed by its wonderful cuisine that he returns a note to its sender - a neglected housewife trying to rouse her husband’s affections. Mismatched lunchboxes lead to an unlikely romance in the Indian drama that’s enchanted festival audiences around the globe, winning an audience award at Cannes and a Best Film nomination at the London Film Festival.
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