The Lunchbox Page #2

Synopsis: The film, set in Mumbai, revolves around a mistaken delivery by the Dabbawalas (lunchbox service) of Mumbai, which leads to a relationship between Saajan, a lonely widower close to retirement, and Ila, an unhappy housewife, as they start exchanging notes through the daily lunchbox.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Director(s): Ritesh Batra
Production: Sony Pictures Classics
  Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 29 wins & 35 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.8
Metacritic:
76
Rotten Tomatoes:
96%
PG
Year:
2013
104 min
$4,231,500
Website
4,536 Views


and falls asleep at night.

Upon awakening, he goes back staring at it.

He says nothing.

For 15 years.

Even doctors have lost all hope.

It's an old model Orient fan.

It never stops.

Auntie thinks, it keeps him alive.

One day, there was

a power outage.

The fan stopped

and his pulse slowed.

Fortunately, the electricity came back.

Since Auntie installed a generator.

Her husband continues

to stare at the fan.

And mine stuck with his phone.

As if nothing else exists.

This might be true,

there is really nothing else.

What do we live for?

Dear Ila,

Your husband sounds like a busy man.

Life is very busy these days.

There are too many people,

and everyone wants

what the other has.

Years ago, you could find a place

to sit in the train every now and then,

but these days, it's difficult.

If Mr. Deshpande wakes up now,

he will see the difference and probably

go back to his ceiling fan.

When my wife died,

she got a horizontal burial cot.

I tried to buy a burial cot for

myself the other day,

and what they offered

me was a vertical one.

I've spent my whole life

standing in trains and buses,

now I'll even have to

stand when I'm dead! .

Why don't you

have another child?

Sometimes having a child

can help a marriage.

Rajeev?

What do you say?

It's pretty.

You forgot?

Rajeev, I wore it

on our honeymoon.

Today I thought to try it,

if it needed alterations.

But it suits me very well,

- Right?

- Yes.

It is a little wide.

Yes...

On our honeymoon, we didn't know

Yashvi will born.

We didn't know for a while.

Two months!

We didn't have much

at the time.

When she was born,

luck smiled on us.

Everything is so expensive today,

luck isn't enough.

Why do you send me

cauliflower every day?

Have you bought a stock?

Rajeev.

And what if Yashvi had a

little brother or sister?

You had one.

And...

Don't send me cauliflower everyday,

it gives me gas.

Cars, buses, airplanes:

All trapped in Mumbai we are.

This road is jam

since this morning.

You see that tower?

A woman jumped from there this morning

with her little girl.

She jumped with her daughter?

What was her name?

I don't know. I don't know.

Surely some domestic problems.

You know someone

who lives there?

Did she survive?

Hello.

This morning

my husband went to the office...

Hello, sir. How are you?

I'm busy.

And my training?

It's lunchtime.

Check back later.

I was told to expect nothing

from you.

I'm Aslam Shaikh.

I'm an orphan.

I gave myself that name.

All I know I taught myself.

And I will also learn this myself.

I'm done. Thank you very much.

Listen.

Come here.

Go to my desk.

There are claims files

of Ahmedabad sector.

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Ritesh Batra

Ritesh Batra (born 12 June 1979) is an Indian filmmaker. Batra is widely known for his debut feature film The Lunchbox starring Irrfan Khan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, and Nimrat Kaur, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2013 and won Rail d’Or (Grand Golden Rail). Batra also won the Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best First Feature Film in 2014. The Lunchbox has been called the highest grossing foreign film in North America, Europe and Australia for the year of 2014 grossing over 25 Million USD/180 Crore INR. Batra was nominated for a BAFTA Award for The Lunchbox in the category Film Not in the English language in 2015.He has directed the English-language film The Sense of an Ending, starring Jim Broadbent. The film is an adaptation of Julian Barnes’ Booker Prize-winning novel The Sense of an Ending. Ritesh has also directed Our Souls at Night starring Jane Fonda and Robert Redford. more…

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